Trudeau v. Field
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill in Chancery. Heard upon demurrer at the February Term, 1897, Orleans County. Taft, Chancellor, sustained the demurrer and dismissed the bill with costs. The orator claimed as successor to the rights conveyed to Benjamin F. Herbert by Calvin Harman by the deed of June 11, 1842.
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, C. J.
The demurrer challenges the sufficiency of the facts set forth in the bill to entitle the orator to the relief prayed for.
The bill sets forth, that, on August 26, 1827, Calvin Harman and D. W. Harman owned land on both sides of Black river in Coventry, on which there stood a saw mill and a grist mill, operated by a water power created by a dam across the river immediately above the saw mill; that on that day by a deed containing the usual covenants they conveyed the grist mill, with the land on which it stood, and certain rights in the water power to Elijah Cleveland & Co., which company was…
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