Jones v. Root

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Jones v. Root

72 Mass. 435

CourtMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

DecidedSeptember 15, 1856

StatusPublished

Cited by5 cases

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Jones v. Root, 72 Mass. 435 (Mass. 1856).

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Metcalf, J.

We are of opinion that § 13 of St. 1855, c. 215, which authorizes the seizure of liquors, is not unconstitutional; that the law was in all respects correctly stated to the jury; that the verdict has established the facts which, by the law, constituted" a defence to the action; and that the illustration used by the judge in his remarks to the jury, which is excepted tr by the plaintiff, is not a legal ground of exception.

Exceptions overruled.

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Metcalf, J.

We are of opinion that § 13 of St. 1855, c. 215, which authorizes the seizure of liquors, is not unconstitutional; that the law was in all respects correctly stated to the jury; that the verdict has established the facts which, by the law, constituted" a defence to the action; and that the illustration used by the judge in his remarks to the jury, which is excepted tr by the plaintiff, is not a legal ground of exception.

Exceptions overruled.

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