Case Name: ABRAHAM HARGIS, qui tam, v. CHARLES VAUGHAN
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1799-10-11
Citations: 1 Del. Cas. 241
Docket Number: 
Parties: ABRAHAM HARGIS, qui tam, v. CHARLES VAUGHAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 241–241

Head Matter:
ABRAHAM HARGIS, qui tam, v. CHARLES VAUGHAN.
Supreme Court. Sussex.
October 11, 1799.
Wilson’s Red Book, 258.
Wilson for plaintiff. Bayard for defendant.
Defendant made affidavit, which is filed etc., that he was arrested about nine or ten o’clock on the day after the general election at Georgetown, before he had returned home etc. Bayard moved that he might be discharged from the action, being privileged to come to and return from the election.
Wilson admitted that the court would give a large and liberal construction to this privilege, but, as it was a matter for the exercise of the court’s legal discretion, he would not observe on the circumstances of defendant’s delay and distance, vide Tidd Pr. 27.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Let the defendant be discharged.