Davis v. Inhabitants of Bath
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
In this case the parties agreed on a statement of facts, and also agreed to waive any objections to the form of the process and mode of proceeding, and that judgment should be rendered according to the rights of the parties. consisting of twelve persons including himself, were inhabitants of Bath, at the beginning of the year 1837, and long before, and have so remained since, and were enumerated as inhabitants of that town in the census taken that year.
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In this case the parties agreed on a statement of facts, and also agreed to waive any objections to the form of the process and mode of proceeding, and that judgment should be rendered according to the rights of the parties. consisting of twelve persons including himself, were inhabitants of Bath, at the beginning of the year 1837, and long before, and have so remained since, and were enumerated as inhabitants of that town in the census taken that year. In March, 1837, the inhabitants of the town voted to receive their share of the surplus revenue, under the provisions of the stat. 1837, c.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Weston C. J.
The act of 1837, c. 265, provides, that the portion of 'the public money of the United States, which might be received of the Treasurer of the State, should be deposited with the several cities, towns and plantations, upon the terms and conditions therein'prescribed. It was subject to be reclaimed, for which adequate provision was made; but in the mean time the use of the money was to remain with the towns, it was not a special de*144posit for safe keeping merely, but it was a general deposit, imposing on the towns the obligation of returning an…
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