State v. Brown
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from tbe judgment of a justice on a town grand juror’s complaint against tbe respondent for keeping a dog not licensed according to law. Heard on demurrer, Lamoille County, December Term, 1899, Taft, C. J., presiding. Pending the demurrer, tbe court, against tbe objection of tbe respondent, permitted tbe state’s attorney to amend the complaint. Demurrer overruled and amended complaint adjudged sufficient.
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Appeal from tbe judgment of a justice on a town grand juror’s complaint against tbe respondent for keeping a dog not licensed according to law. Heard on demurrer, Lamoille County, December Term, 1899, Taft, C. J., presiding. Pending the demurrer, tbe court, against tbe objection of tbe respondent, permitted tbe state’s attorney to amend the complaint. Demurrer overruled and amended complaint adjudged sufficient. Tbe respondent excepted, and tbe cause was passed to the Supreme ■Court before final judgment. Tbe original complaint charged, in substance, that tbe respondent at Belvidere in…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
Tbe owner or keeper of a dog more than eight weeks old shall annually cause it to be registered, numbered, described, and licensed on or before the first day of April, for *412one year from that date, and pay for such license one dollar for each male or spayed female and four dollars for each female dog; and when not thus paid, the owner or keeper may procure a license on or before the fifteenth day of May, by paying two dollars for each male or spayed female and four dollars for each female dog. Y. S. 4821. And if, after the fifteenth day of May, a person becomes the owner or keeper of a…
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