Gordon v. Clifford
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Trespass, for arresting the plaintiff on the ninth day of January, 1850, at Stratham, in this county, conveying her to Exeter, and confining her in jail until she paid the sum of $101,58. Clifford and Tilton justified as collectors of Epping; Clifford for 1846, and Tilton for 1847, and each as servant of -the other.
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Trespass, for arresting the plaintiff on the ninth day of January, 1850, at Stratham, in this county, conveying her to Exeter, and confining her in jail until she paid the sum of $101,58. Clifford and Tilton justified as collectors of Epping; Clifford for 1846, and Tilton for 1847, and each as servant of -the other. The plaintiff was an inhabitant of the town of Epping until February, 1848, but since that time has resided in the family of Stephen Scammon, her son-in-law, at Stratham. The plaintiff’s counsel made several objections to the validity of the warrants to the collectors and their…
1Opinion of the CourtEastman, J.
The first exception taken by the plaintiff upon the trial of this cause, was to the official character of the selectmen who signed the warrant, by virtue of which, the plaintiff was arrested. It appears that the selectmen were not chosen at the regular annual meeting for.the choice of town officers that year, but at a subsequent meeting, the annual meeting having been dissolved without the choice-of any town officers.
The statute provides that “ when any person elected to any town office shall not accept the same, or shall die, resign, remove from town, or become insane, in the judgment of the…
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