Bucklin v. Town of Sudbury
Supreme Court of Vermont
General and special assumpsit to recover a town bounty. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury at the March term, 1870, of the Rutland county court, Wheeler, J., presiding.
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General and special assumpsit to recover a town bounty. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury at the March term, 1870, of the Rutland county court, Wheeler, J., presiding. The plaintiff put in evidence a certified copy of the record of the proceedings of a meeting of the defendant town, held on the 8th day of December, 1863, by which it appeared that under a proper article in the warning the town at said meeting passed ‘the following resolution: Resolved, by the town of Sudbury, in town meeting legally warned and holden on the 8th day of December, 1863, that a bounty of five hundred…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Barrett, J.
In the variety of this class of cases, however far the court may seem to have gone in maintaining claims for bounty upon the very ground and point of the respective decisions, or however wide the range of remark by judges in discoursing upon the subject as involved in or suggested by the case then in hand, the idea has been expressly or impliedly maintained, that the parly claiming a bounty is’not entitled to recover, unless, in some way, it is established that he comes within the scope and meaning of the vote by which it is offered.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Jackman v. Town of New HavenSupreme Court of Vermont · 1870
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