State v. Edwards
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. This was a complaint under the statutes charging two offenses ; first, for refusing to receive the complainant’s grain to be ground, and, second, for taking excessive tolls for grain received and ground by the defendants.
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On exceptions. This was a complaint under the statutes charging two offenses ; first, for refusing to receive the complainant’s grain to be ground, and, second, for taking excessive tolls for grain received and ground by the defendants. The case was heard by a trial justice and was brought on appeal by the defendants into the Superior Court, for Aroostook County, where the defendants offered to prove that, on tendering the grain mentioned in the first charge, they refused to grind it uinless the complainant would pay a toll in excess of one ■sixteenth part, whereupon he took the grain away to…
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
The defendants were convicted under R. S., c. 57, § § 5 and 6, as amended by the Act of 1885, c. 332, on two several counts; first, of refusing to receive grain at their gristmill there tendered to be ground ; second, of taking excessive toll. The defendants have exception to the ruling of the court that they were bound to receive the grists of grain offered, and grind th'e same for the toll specified by the statute, and that an agreement for toll in excess of that fixed by statute would be no defense.
The case does not show what kind of a mill the defendants operated, nor whether it was a…
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