Hickok v. Town of Shelburne
Supreme Court of Vermont
General Assumpsit in tbe common counts, for work and labor, money bad and received, money lent, money paid, etc. Plea, tbe general issue, and trial by jury, April term, 1867, Chittenden county, Pierpoint, C. J., presiding.
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General Assumpsit in tbe common counts, for work and labor, money bad and received, money lent, money paid, etc. Plea, tbe general issue, and trial by jury, April term, 1867, Chittenden county, Pierpoint, C. J., presiding. Tbe plaintiff offered in evidence certified copies of tbe records of said town, containing tbe warning and proceedings of a meeting held July 26,1864, under said warning, and of what purported to be an adjourned meeting held August 8,1864; also tbe records of a warning, and meeting held under that warning, August 22, 1864. To tbe admission of these records tbe defendants…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Peout, J.
The result of this cause in this court depends mainly, independent of the question as to the sufficiency of the-*415declaration, upon the construction of the act of 1862, (No. 38). Were tbe controversy between the substitute furnished by the plaintiff and the town, the enlistment, credit and application upon its assigned quota, and vote of July 25, 1864, upon the authority of repeated decisions, would fix the liability of the town, and it could not be avoided. Seymour v. Marlboro, 40 Vt., 171; Cox v. Mt. Tabor, decided at the last term of this…
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