Terrett v. Town of Sharon
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition for an injunction, brought to the superior court for Litchfield county. The petition alleged the following facts.
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Petition for an injunction, brought to the superior court for Litchfield county. The petition alleged the following facts. That the town of Sharon, at a town meeting legally called and held on the 9th day of January, 1865, passed the following resolution: — “ Resolved, that the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars be paid to every non-commissioned officer, and private who has volunteered and been credited to this town, who has served six months, or has been honorably discharged on account of wounds or disease contracted in the service; also to every man who has been or shall hereafter be…
1Opinion of the CourtButler, J.
We have deemed it our duty, upon principles of public justice and equity, to sustain the claims of the soldiers who actually served in the war, for bounties voted by the towns, wherever it could be done consistently with a due adherence to the prirciples of law, and we have given this case a deliberate consideration, with a view to sustain the claims made against the town if it could be done.
But the case differs in one material feature — the rescission of the vote — from any of the others of its class which have been before us. We have holden the towns liable where their action preceded and…
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