Supreme Court of Vermont March 15, 1867 (Baldwin v. Coburn)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Steele, J.

The contract, which the plaintiff seeks by this action to enforce, is in the nature of a bond, which he, while commissioner under the liquor law, took of one of the town agents, whom he appointed to sell liquors under the statute. The contract provides that, “whereas, the said Austin L.