Merrill v. Plainfield
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
In Equity. Abel Merrill, Ai Read, George Bryant, Samuel B. Duncan, George C. Freeman, George Westgate, Isaac W. Westgate, and Cyrus S. Richards, all of Plainfield, in said county of Sullivan, yeomen, complain against the town of Plainfield, in said county, a municipal corporation duly established by the laws of said State, Albert S. Eaton, Farnam J. Morgan, and Orra C. Pierce, of said Plainfield, yeomen, Selectmen of said Plainfield, and Benjamin C. Smith, of said…
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In Equity. Abel Merrill, Ai Read, George Bryant, Samuel B. Duncan, George C. Freeman, George Westgate, Isaac W. Westgate, and Cyrus S. Richards, all of Plainfield, in said county of Sullivan, yeomen, complain against the town of Plainfield, in said county, a municipal corporation duly established by the laws of said State, Albert S. Eaton, Farnam J. Morgan, and Orra C. Pierce, of said Plainfield, yeomen, Selectmen of said Plainfield, and Benjamin C. Smith, of said Plainfield, yeoman, Treasurer of said Plainfield, and say: That in .the warrant for the last annual meeting of said Plainfield,…
1Opinion of the CourtSargent, J.
The bill asks for a perpetual injunction to restrain the defendants from paying to a former board of selectmen of Plainfield the expenses incurred by them in defending themselves against prosecutions for alleged misconduct in the management of the check list of that town, while acting as selectmen thereof. The particular facts upon which the plaintiffs rely are stated in the bill. All the defendants, except the town of Plainfield, were defaulted at the first term, and as to them the bill is taken pro confesso.
The town of Plainfield denies none of the allegations in the bill, ex*133cept the legal…
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