8 Johns. 150
Decided May 15, 1811
New York Supreme Court · decided 1811-05-15
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.
Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently August 1866
2 state decisions
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1811-05-15
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¶1The 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.
¶2Judgment affirmed,