Noble v. Sylvester
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover for a stone. Pleas, the general issue and two special pleas. Replication joining the issue tendered and traversing the special pleas. Trial by jury, May term, 1868, Barrett, J., presiding.
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Trover for a stone. Pleas, the general issue and two special pleas. Replication joining the issue tendered and traversing the special pleas. Trial by jury, May term, 1868, Barrett, J., presiding. The defendant averred in his special pleas that, prior to the l'2th day of April, 1833, the plaintiff owned a piece of land in Bethel upon which was a rock and from this rock the plaintiff had loosened the stone in question and moved it a very little; that on said 12th of April, the plaintiff sold and conveyed to one Daniel Walace said piece of land having said stone thereon as aforesaid, by a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Pierpoint, C. J.
It appears from the case that the stone in controversy was split out and removed from its original connection and position in the ledge, and laid up preparatory to its removal from the farm on which it was originally situated. This was done by the plaintiff, who was then the owner of the farm, and the object of splitting it out and putting it in such position was to remove it from the farm and use it in the construction of a tomb. This being the case, the stone may be regarded as being governed by the same principles that are applicable…
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