Case Name: Whitcher & a. v. State; Warden v. Same; Randall & a. v. Same; Grafton County v. Same; Walker v. Same
Court: New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1894-12
Citations: 68 N.H. 605
Docket Number: 
Parties: Whitcher & a. v. State. Warden v. Same. Randall & a. v. Same. Grafton County v. Same. Walker v. Same.
Judges: Smith, J., did not sit.
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 68
Pages: 605–606

Head Matter:
Grafton,
Dec., 1894.
Whitcher & a. v. State. Warden v. Same. Randall & a. v. Same. Grafton County v. Same. Walker v. Same.

Opinion:
Petitions, under Laws 1893, c. 94, for the reward offered for the arrest or causing the arrest of Almy. The court found that Whitcher and Brown, and Warden, through information furnished by them, caused Almy's arrest; that none of the other petitioners arrested him or caused his arrest; awarded a part of the reward to Whitcher and Brown and a part to Warden, if it could lawfully be apportioned, otherwise the whole to Whitcher and Brown; and dismissed the other petitions. Each of the parties, including the state, excepted to all the court's findings and orders not favorable to it, him, or her. No ground being stated or appearing on which any of the exceptions could bo sustained, they were overruled, and the reward adjudged in part to Whitcher and Brown, and in part to Warden.
Smith, J., did not sit.
Samuel B. Page, John Kivel, William U. Cotton, and Bingham §• Bingham, for Whitcher and Brown.
Charles A. Bole, for Warden.
John L. Spring and James C. Harvey (of Vermont), for Randall and others.
Albert S. Batchellor, for Grafton county.
Mary E. Walker, pro se.
Edwin Gr. Eastman,' attorney-general, and John E. Young, for the state.