Morrow v. Inhabitants of Vernon
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This case was tried at the Sussex Circuit Court, September Term, 1871, and a verdict rendered for the plaintiff, for the amount of the note held by him, and interest. The motion for a rule to show cause was argued in this court, on a state of the case agreed upon by the parties.
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This case was tried at the Sussex Circuit Court, September Term, 1871, and a verdict rendered for the plaintiff, for the amount of the note held by him, and interest. The motion for a rule to show cause was argued in this court, on a state of the case agreed upon by the parties. It shows the note or writing upon which the action was founded, as follows : “ $400. “ One year after date, the township of Vernon promises to pay Thomas Jennings or bearer, the sum of four hundred dollars, for relieving the township of one man, in the draft that has just fallen upon the township in the call for three…
1Opinion of the CourtScudder, J.
The first cause assigned for setting aside the verdict, that the township committee had uo power to make such contract, and that the inhabitants of the township could not confer such authority upon them for the special purposes named therein, under the general powers contained in sections eleven and twelve of township acts, (Nix. Dig. 979,*) is answered by the act approved March 27th, 1866, (Laws of 1866, p. 706,) which enacts “that the proceedings of the inhabitants of said township, at said town meetings, and the acts and doings of the town committee, in carrying the same into effect, be,…
2Cited by1 opinion
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