Buzzell v. Cummings
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover for tlie recovery of a water wheel. The ease was heard at. the June Term, 1887, Powers, J., presiding, upon the report of a referee. Judgment for the plaintiff. Exceptions by the •defendant. The referee found a demand' previous to the service of the writ by an officer of the First National Bank of St. Johnsbury, which then owned the note, and a refusal.
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Trover for tlie recovery of a water wheel. The ease was heard at. the June Term, 1887, Powers, J., presiding, upon the report of a referee. Judgment for the plaintiff. Exceptions by the •defendant. The referee found a demand' previous to the service of the writ by an officer of the First National Bank of St. Johnsbury, which then owned the note, and a refusal. As to the law of New Hampshire, the report was as follows f “ Evidence was introduced before me as to the law of New Hampshire bearing upon this case. 1 find the law of New Hampshire to be as laid down in the case of Cochran v. Flinty…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Tyner, J.
The facts in this case are as follows: On the 15th day of September, 1877, Hiram D. Sawyer, of Bath, N. H., being the owner of certain premises in that town upon which was situated a grist mill, on that day sold the premises to William F. Burton for five hundred dollars, and by arrangement between the parties conveyed the same by deed to Rosalind Burton, wife of said William F. Burton.
The deed was dated February 2d, 1878. Fifty dollars of the purchase price was paid by Mrs. Burton at the time of the purchase and six promissory notes, dated…
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