Higley v. Bunce
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was an action of replevin, alleging, That the defendants, on the 27th of May, 1S33, at Canaan, from and off the land of the plaintiffs, with force and arms, took certain beasts particularly described, and them impounded and detained.
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IN ERROR. This was an action of replevin, alleging, That the defendants, on the 27th of May, 1S33, at Canaan, from and off the land of the plaintiffs, with force and arms, took certain beasts particularly described, and them impounded and detained. The defendants avowed the taking of the beasts, on the public highway, in the town of Canaan, on the day mentioned in the declaration ; because a meeting of the legal voters of the town of Canaan was legally holden, on the 1st of October, 1832, after a warning with special notice of the object • which meeting, being duly organized, passed a certain…
1Opinion of the CourtHuntington, J.
Several questions are presented, by this record, upon which we do not think it necessary to express an *440opinion ; as there is one error assigned, which, in our judgment. is sufficient to require the reversal of the judgment of the court below.
The statute (revision of 1821) tit. Towns, s. 7. p. 458., enacted, that “every town, ata lawful meeting, warned for that purpose, shall have power to make by-laws for restraining horses, cattle, asses, mules, swine, sheep, and geese, from going at large, and for regulating such as shall go at large : provided that no penalty for any breach of such by-law…
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