Davis v. Town of Windsor
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit for a town bounty, Plea, the general issue, and trial by the court, December term, 1873, Windsor county, Barrett, J., presiding. The plaintiff’s intestate re-enlisted to the credit of the defendant, at Brandy Station, Va., on the 16th of December, 1863, and was mustered into service on the same day.
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Assumpsit for a town bounty, Plea, the general issue, and trial by the court, December term, 1873, Windsor county, Barrett, J., presiding. The plaintiff’s intestate re-enlisted to the credit of the defendant, at Brandy Station, Va., on the 16th of December, 1863, and was mustered into service on the same day. The two Sturtevants named in the opinion, were enlisted by the selectmen of the town on the 1st of December, 1863, and mustered on the 25th of the same December, and credited upon the books of the adjutant general, to fill the quota of 29 men named in the opinion. The intestate was the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
The defendant town voted, November 80, 1868, “ that the sum of $300 be paid to each of such volunteers as may be enlisted and mustered into service under the call of the president for 300,000 men, October 17, 1863, provided the quota is not filled; and in case the quota is filled, then the further sum of $200, to the number of 29 men.” The exceptions state the number to be “ 39 men,” which, by the affidavit of the town clerk, seems to have been a clerical mistake in his certificate. But it is not important whether the number named in the…
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