Lincoln v. Hapgood
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Case against the defendants, for that, when acting and presiding as selectmen of the town of Petersham, at a meeting then duly convened and holden for the election of a representative, in May, 1812, they refused the plaintiff’s vote there offered, although a qualified voter, "entitled to vote in the said election, &c.
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Case against the defendants, for that, when acting and presiding as selectmen of the town of Petersham, at a meeting then duly convened and holden for the election of a representative, in May, 1812, they refused the plaintiff’s vote there offered, although a qualified voter, "entitled to vote in the said election, &c. A trial was had upon the general issue, before the late Chief Justice Seioall, April term, 1813; when it was proved that the plaintiff’s home and most usual residence were at Petersham, where he was born, and where he served an apprenticeship with his father until he came of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered at this term by
Parker, C. J.
As to the first point reserved for the considera-
tion of the Court, we are of opinion that the plaintiff had a legal right to vote in the choice of representatives in Petersham. He was an inhabitant of that town, and resided there, unless his absence for less than three months, during which time he voted, at .the April meeting in Belchertown, * in the choice of [ *353 ] governor and lieutenant-governor, should operate to change his residence. And we cannot think that these facts deprived him of his franchise in his native town.
He…
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