Case Name: HARVARD
Court: Massachusetts House of Representatives
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1807
Citations: 1 Rep. Cont. El. 59
Docket Number: 
Parties: HARVARD.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of controverted elections in the House of representatives, of the commonwealth of Massachusetts...
Volume: 1
Pages: 59–59

Head Matter:
HARVARD.
A town having a right to send two representatives, at a meeting called to elect a person to represent the inhabitants in the general court, elected a member, and then voted to choose another, and thereupon elected a second; the election of the latter was held good.

Opinion:
The election of Jonathan Wetherbee, returned a member from the town of Harvard, which was entitled to send two members, was controverted by Henry Bromfield and others, on the ground, that, at a meeting held in said town for the purpose of electing a person to represent the same in the general court, Isaiah Parker was elected, and then the inhabitants voted to choose another representative, and elected the said Wetherbee; whereas " there was no article in the warrant which authorized the said inhabitants to elect more than one representative."
The committee on elections, to whom the case was referred, do not appear to have made any report upon it. [Their silence, and the acquiescence of the house, afford a strong presumption, that the objection was regarded as groundless.]
27 J. H. 43.