Case Name: CASE OF DANIEL MERRILL, MEMBER FROM SEDGWICK
Court: Massachusetts House of Representatives
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1813
Citations: 1 Rep. Cont. El. 175
Docket Number: 
Parties: CASE OF DANIEL MERRILL, MEMBER FROM SEDGWICK.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of controverted elections in the House of representatives, of the commonwealth of Massachusetts...
Volume: 1
Pages: 175–175

Head Matter:
CASE OF DANIEL MERRILL, MEMBER FROM SEDGWICK.
Question, — as to the right of a member, who has removed into another state, to retain his seat.

Opinion:
Mr. Whitman, of Boston, moved, that a committee be .appointed to inquire whether the Rev. Daniel Merrill, the member from Sedwick, in the county of Hancock, is entitled to hold his seat; he having since his election removed into the state of New Hampshire, and become an inhabitant of that state, The consideration of this motion was referred to the next day, at which time it was withdrawn by the mover,
34 J. H. 240, 245. See the cases of John Shepley, member from Fitchburg, 1825-26, and of Emory Burpee, member from Sterling, 1838.