Chestney v. Coon
New York Supreme Court
IN error, on certiorari, from a justice’s court. Go mi sued Chestne'y before the justice, in debt for 5 dollars, for exacting toll, as a toll-gatherer, at the toll-gate, on the first great western turnpike, when the plaintiff was going to and returning from a grist mill, for the purpose of having his grain ground.
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IN error, on certiorari, from a justice’s court. Go mi sued Chestne'y before the justice, in debt for 5 dollars, for exacting toll, as a toll-gatherer, at the toll-gate, on the first great western turnpike, when the plaintiff was going to and returning from a grist mill, for the purpose of having his grain ground. It appeared that Chestney, though told that the plaintiff was going to Watson’s grist mill with grain to be ground, exacted the toll, and after the grain was ground, the defendant obliged the plaintiff to pay toll; though informed by the plaintiff, and the miller, that the plaintiff…
1Per curiam
The evidence was sufficient to support the judgment. The plaintiff below went, as it appears, to Watson’s grist mill to get his grain ground, and for no other purpose, and he generally went there when he could not have it ground in his own town. The j udgKtent must be affirmed.
Judgment affirmed,
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