Wyley v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Vermont
TRESPASS for taking four yearlings. The ease was tried upon the following agreed statement of facts : For many years prior to 1864, there was a school district in Clarendon, numbered 7, in which district the plaintiff and his taxable property was situated.
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TRESPASS for taking four yearlings. The ease was tried upon the following agreed statement of facts : For many years prior to 1864, there was a school district in Clarendon, numbered 7, in which district the plaintiff and his taxable property was situated. Annually at its March meetings, prior to 1864, Clarendon appointed a committee designated as “ the committee to alter school districts,” whose business it was to hear applications and make reports thereon to the town meetings of any desired changes in school districts in said town. That such a committee was appointed by said town at its…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Ross, J.
The statute requires the business to be acted upon in town meeting to be set forth in the notification. General Statutes, ch. 15, § 3. The notification must do this with such clearness and particularity that the voters may not be misled in reference to the business upon which they will be called to act, and must be broad enough in its terms to include the business *409actually done. Moore v. Beattie, 33 Vt., 221; Blush v. Colchester, 39 Vt., 195.
Tlie article in the notification, under which the town voted to set the plaintiff to district No. 2 in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Moore v. BeattieSupreme Court of Vermont · 1860
- Sawyer v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Vermont · 1853