Gray v. Middletown & Poultney
Supreme Court of Vermont
Commissioners’ report. Heard, September Term, 1883, Yeazey, J., presiding. The town of Poultney filed an exception to the report. The court held that the commissioner was not disqualified; allowed exceptions and ordered the cause to the Supreme Court under section 1390, R. L. The commissioner was disqualified.
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Commissioners’ report. Heard, September Term, 1883, Yeazey, J., presiding. The town of Poultney filed an exception to the report. The court held that the commissioner was not disqualified; allowed exceptions and ordered the cause to the Supreme Court under section 1390, R. L. The commissioner was disqualified. Waters v. Day, 10 Yt. 487; Pond v. Millford, 35 Conn. 33; Petition of New Boston, 49 N. H. 328 ; Chase v. Rutland, 47 Yt. 393 ; Petition of the Town of Hashua, 12 N. H. 425. The. disqualification could not be removed by a subsequent sale. Phelps v. Hull, 2 Tyler, 401. In a case like…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Ross, J.
The only contention is in regard to the qualification of Cyrus Jennings to act as a commissioner to inquire and report to the County Court whether the highway petitioned for should be laid out and established in the defendant towns. He had a grand list in the town of Middletown when he acted as such commissioner, but before acting had conveyed the property which was the basis of the grand list. He would be interested in whatever taxes might be assessed by the town of Middletown for the current year 1883, but not beyond that period. This…
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