Supreme Court of Vermont January 15, 1869 (Yates v. Hurst)

*560The opinion of the court was delivered by

Barrett, J.

Though, as found' by the commissioner, Buck bought the defendant’s claim for a bounty for $15 in money and a suit of clothes at $37, the report shows that afterward, and before the bounty money was paid over to Buck, the defendant denied that he had sold his claim to Buck, and protested against the payment of the bounty money to him; and