Harris v. Huntington
Supreme Court of Vermont
MOTION in arrest. Attach Amos Huntington and Jedediah Clark, to answer unto Ebenezer Harris, Esquire, in a plea of trespass on the case, for that whereas the said Ebenezer is a true, honest, just, and faithful citizen of this and the United States, and as such hath always from his nativity hitherto behaved and governed himself, and also hath, for the term of six years last past, been, by the Legislature of the State of Vermont, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn to the…
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MOTION in arrest. Attach Amos Huntington and Jedediah Clark, to answer unto Ebenezer Harris, Esquire, in a plea of trespass on the case, for that whereas the said Ebenezer is a true, honest, just, and faithful citizen of this and the United States, and as such hath always from his nativity hitherto behaved and governed himself, and also hath, for the term of six years last past, been, by the Legislature of the State of Vermont, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn to the office of Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Bennington, and until the time of commit ting the injuries…
1Opinion of the Court
Tyler, Assistant Judge,
delivered the opinion of the Court, the Chief Judge having been of counsel for the plaintiff.
Opinion of the Court,
Curia. The plaintiff, after setting forth a good character in the usual form, declares in substance, that the defendants, with a design to injure him, and more especially to prevent his re-election to the office of a Justice of the Peace, did, on the 5th of October, *1341799, with others, write a false and defamatory libel, which the defendants published to divers of the good citizens of the State, and to the representatives of the freemen of the State, when…
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