Hine v. Belden
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Trover for certain liquors and the vessels in which they were contained. The defendant had seized the liquors, which belonged to Hine, on the 19 th day of June, 1857, as a public officer, upon a warrant issued by Hiram Foster, a justice of the peace, under the provisions of the 12th and 18th sections of the “act for the suppression of intemperance.”
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Trover for certain liquors and the vessels in which they were contained. The defendant had seized the liquors, which belonged to Hine, on the 19 th day of June, 1857, as a public officer, upon a warrant issued by Hiram Foster, a justice of the peace, under the provisions of the 12th and 18th sections of the “act for the suppression of intemperance.” The justice summoned Hine in proper form to appear before him at his office on the 8th day of July, at nine o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause why the liquor should not be declared forfeited. At the time specified in the summons for the trial…
1Opinion of the CourtWaldo, J.
There is great doubt whether the parties have, in their pleadings, presented the questions they have asked us to revise in a proper form, and we might perhaps be justified in refusing an examination of them on account of this *389informality, but as they have both reated the special plea as a correct statement of the facts, and have asked our opinion upon them, we shall treat the subject as if it were presented in a strictly technical manner.
The plaintiff in error claims that thepi-ocess pending before justice Foster on the 8th day of July, 1857, was civil process, and that therefore, as the…
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