Philbrick v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery. Heard on bill, answer and facts found by the chancellor, in vacation after the June Term, 1915, "Windsor County, Fish, chancellor. Decree for the defendant. Plaintiff appealed. The orator owed no duty to the defendant who was a trespasser, and so there can be no question of laches here. Laches is the neglect to do something which by law a man is obliged or in duty bound to do.
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Appeal in Chancery. Heard on bill, answer and facts found by the chancellor, in vacation after the June Term, 1915, "Windsor County, Fish, chancellor. Decree for the defendant. Plaintiff appealed. The orator owed no duty to the defendant who was a trespasser, and so there can be no question of laches here. Laches is the neglect to do something which by law a man is obliged or in duty bound to do. Anderson v. Northrup, 30 Fla. 612, 12 So. 318; Sebag v. Abitol, 4 M. & S. 462,' 2 E. C. L. 39; Demuth v. Old Toivn Bank, 85 Md. 315, 37 Atl. 266; King et ais. v. White et als., 63 Yt. 158; Houk v.…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
This is a bill in chancery in the nature of a bill of review to impeach a decree rendered in the court of chancery for Windsor County at the June Term, 1906, in which cause this defendant was plaintiff and the plaintiff here and others were defendants. The prayer of the bill is that said decree be set aside and declared null and void and that this plaintiff be reinstated in his rights to certain land which was the subject matter of the former suit. The case was heard on the bill, answer and facts found by the chancellor and resulted in a decree dismissing the bill, from which the plaintiff…
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