Fassett v. Town of Roxbury
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for injury on a highway. Plea, general issue ; and trial by jury, September Term, 1881, Redfield, J., presiding. Verdict for the plaintiff.
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Case for injury on a highway. Plea, general issue ; and trial by jury, September Term, 1881, Redfield, J., presiding. Verdict for the plaintiff. The notice as to the place of accident and injuries was : “ An open, public highway in said town of Roxbury, leading from the west, or depot village in said town of Roxbury, to the depot village in the town of Northfield, and that when near the railroad crossing which is between the dwelling house of Azro Simonds in said town of Roxbury, and the dwelling house of Marshall Latham in said town of Roxbury, and on the easterly side of the said railroad…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rowell, J.
Defendant contends that the notice does not designate the place of injury with sufficient certainty, nor sufficiently describe the bodily injuries for which recovery is sought. It is claimed that the notice locates the place of injury between a point about five or six rods easterly of the railroad crossing and Latham’s house, thus ranging a distance of some thirty-four or thirty-five rods, it being about forty rods from the crossing to Latham’s house. We think there is no great ambiguity in the notice in this respect, and that it is not very…
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