If a fact of this kind can be proved by parol evidence. it is difficult to see why the election of officers may not be proved in the same manner. And if (I will say) their election could be so proved it follows hard upon that citizenship may as easily be established and the law stands for naught. And I will add also. if the great fact of naturalization. whereby a man is recreated. is clothed with the sovereign powers and prerogatives of American citizenship. can be proved by parol. then it is diflicult to see why any judgment of any court can not be established by parol testimony and thus obliterate the most ancient and wisest principles ofjurisprudence. In the case which I hold in my hand (Andrews vs. Boylston. 110 Mass.. page 214) the circumstances were these: The records of the town failed to show that upon a vote to reestablish the schooldistrict system therein there was a twothirds vote.
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