Mears v. Bickford
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report. Assumpsit to recover money paid to the defendant by the town of Waterville, as bounty, for having put in a substitute. After the evidence was all put. in, the case was reported to the full Court, which was to render such judgment as the law and evidence required.
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
The plaintiff testified that the defendant agreed with his minor son, if he would enlist as his substitute, to give him " two hundred dollars, and all the bounties that the town had raised or should raise towards filling that quota, and every thing accruing from that service.”
George Mears, jr., the minor son, enlisted-as a substitute for the defendant, with the consent of the plaintiff, and was counted on the quota of the town of Waterville, where the defendant resided.
The defendant paid two hundred dollars according to his agreement, and this suit is to recover of the defendant the sums…
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