Williams v. Whiting
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of the case against the defendants, as selectmen of the town of Dedham, for unlawfully refusing to permit the plaintiff to give in his vote for a representative in the Congress of the United States, for the district of Norfolk, at a town meeting holden for. that purpose on the 2d day of November, 1812. (a) The declaration contained two counts; in the first of which the plaintiff alleges his residence in Dedham for one year preceding the said election, and…
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This was an action of the case against the defendants, as selectmen of the town of Dedham, for unlawfully refusing to permit the plaintiff to give in his vote for a representative in the Congress of the United States, for the district of Norfolk, at a town meeting holden for. that purpose on the 2d day of November, 1812. (a) The declaration contained two counts; in the first of which the plaintiff alleges his residence in Dedham for one year preceding the said election, and an undue rejection of his vote by the defendants, and their refusal to place his name on the list of qualified voters…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The only qualification to entitle the plaintiff to vote in Dedham when his vote was rejected by the defendants, which is disputed, is his residence in that town for one year next preceding the election. He had before lived at Roxlury, within the same congressional district; and the question is, whether he had been domiciled in Dedham one year immediately preceding the election. He had unquestionably a right to vote, provided he had been so domiciled.
On the 28th of October, in the preceding year, he received an *391appointment, which rendered it convenient, if not necessary, for him to dwell in…
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