Adams v. Howe
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, upon a judgment rendered June, 1816, in an action of trespass for taking and carrying away a heifer, the property of the said Adams, by the defendants in error.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, upon a judgment rendered June, 1816, in an action of trespass for taking and carrying away a heifer, the property of the said Adams, by the defendants in error. The judgment in the Common Pleas was rendered in favor of the defendants, upon the following special verdict returned by the jury upon the issue' of not guilty, joined between the parties : — “ The jury find that the defendants were the assessors of the town of Rutland for the year 1813, duly chosen and sworn ; and that, as such, they assessed the plaintiff to the support of the ministry, in…
1Opinion of the Court
* Parker, C. J.
By the special verdict in this case,
it appears that the plaintiff in error was exempted from ministerial taxes, according to the provisions of the Stat. 1811, c. 6, he having regularly obtained and filed with the proper officer of the town a certificate of his membership in a Baptist society in the town of Barre, and such a society being found to exist. It is true that it also appears that the society of which he was a member *295was not incorporated; and that their minister or teacher was not settled over that society, but only engaged to preach to them one Sabbath in a month, he…
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