Phelps v. Goddard
Supreme Court of Vermont
ATTACH Moses Goddard and Buel Hitchcock, of Addison, in the County of Addison, et al. to answer unto Mathew Phelps, of Nexv-PIaven, in the same County, in a plea of trespass on the case.
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ATTACH Moses Goddard and Buel Hitchcock, of Addison, in the County of Addison, et al. to answer unto Mathew Phelps, of Nexv-PIaven, in the same County, in a plea of trespass on the case. Whereupon the plaintiff declares and says, that at New-Haven aforesaid, on the 20th day of July, A. D. 1798, he the plaintiff then was, long before had been, and still is an inhabitant of said New-Haven; and the said defendants, combining, conspiring and confederating together to wrong and injure the plaintiff, did entice and persuade the plaintiff to go to Crown Point, within the jurisdiction of the State of…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chief Judge delivered the opinion of the Court.
It is to be regretted, that so wide a difference in, the laws of the respective States of the Union, and of the decisions of their Courts upon similar subjects, exist. It often operates to the detriment of suitors. It is to be hoped, that at some not far distant day, the publication of reports of decisions in the State Courts will effect a greater uniformity in law and decisioh. Until then, nought remains but for each State to promulgate such laws as meet the sense and habits of its own citizens, and for each State Judiciary to administer…
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