Bishop v. Williamson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was an action of the case brought by tiie plaintiff, a vender of tickets, against the defendant as Post-master at Belfast.
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This was an action of the case brought by tiie plaintiff, a vender of tickets, against the defendant as Post-master at Belfast. There were five counts in tbe writ — but stripped of all technicality, the action was to recover damages for the refusal of the assistant Post-master to deliver a letter addressed to the plaintiff, containing a prize list of the drawing of a lottery in Portland and delivering it to a person not authorised to receive it: in consequence of wliicb, the plaintiff bad sold a quarter of a ticket for seventy-five cents, after it had actually drawn a prize of $2000, or $500…
1Opinion of the Court
Mellen C. J.
at a subsequent term, delivered the opinion of the Court.
In this case numerous questions have been presented by the defendant and his counsel, and our attention has, in the course of the argument, been directed to each. Before wo enter upon the examination of those arising on the report of the Judge, and connected with his decisions and instructions to the jury, or the motion for a new trial, as being contrary to evidence or the weight of evidence, or the motion in arrest of judgment, we will dispose of the motion which has been made to set aside the verdict, on the ground, that…
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