State v. Sargent
Supreme Court of Vermont
Quo Warranto, under P. S. Chap. 97, against the respondents as License Commissioners of the town of Corinth, brought to the Supreme Court for the County of Orange, May Term, 1908, and then heard on the pleadings and an agreed statement. A majority of the votes, east at the special town meeting on the question of license, were “yes.” -The opinion states the ease.
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Quo Warranto, under P. S. Chap. 97, against the respondents as License Commissioners of the town of Corinth, brought to the Supreme Court for the County of Orange, May Term, 1908, and then heard on the pleadings and an agreed statement. A majority of the votes, east at the special town meeting on the question of license, were “yes.” -The opinion states the ease. “When a particular day of holding a local option election is fixed by the statute or by the authorities ordering it, it is void if held on any other day.” 23 Cye. 99; Jenney v. Alden, 79 Vt. 159; In Be SulUvan, 64 N. Y. Sup. 303;…
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
The statute provides that a meeting of the legal voters of a town shall be held annually on the first Tuesday of March for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, and that it may be adjourned to another time to complete the business. P. S. 3418. It is provided further that the words “annual meeting,” when applied to towns, shall -mean the annual town meeting in March or an adjournment thereof. P. S. 6. The statute also requires that a town meeting be warned by the selectmen, at least twelve days before the meeting, by a posted notice, setting forth the business to be…
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