Kittredge v. Town of Walden
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit to recover a balance of a bounty. Plea, the genera^ issue and notice, and trial by jury at the June Term, 1867, Steele, J., presiding. The plaintiff enlisted September 29th, 1863, in a new organization called the third Vermont battery, light artillery. He enlisted to the credit of the town of Walden ; was mustered in January 1st, 1864, and served regularly until honorably discharged.
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Assumpsit to recover a balance of a bounty. Plea, the genera^ issue and notice, and trial by jury at the June Term, 1867, Steele, J., presiding. The plaintiff enlisted September 29th, 1863, in a new organization called the third Vermont battery, light artillery. He enlisted to the credit of the town of Walden ; was mustered in January 1st, 1864, and served regularly until honorably discharged. He was mustered in under the President’s call of October 17th, 1863. The quota of Walden, under that call, was fifteen men. The plaintiff introduced in evidence a warning and record of a town meeting of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Barrett, J.
The plaintiff enlisted September 23d, 1863, in a new organization, third Vermont battery, light artillery, to the credit of Walden, but was not mustered in till January 1st, 1864. October 17lh, 1863, the President called for three hundred thousand men; of which the quota of Walden was fifteen men. Down to the 25th or 26th of December, 1863, enlistments to such new organization could not apply on that quota. At that time the order precluding such application was rescinded, and Walden was then lacking two men on that quota. While that order…
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