Williams v. Willard
Supreme Court of Vermont
Book Account. The action was commenced before a justice of the peace, and came to the county court by appeal. Judgment to account was rendered in the county court, and an auditor was appointed, who reported the facts substantially as follows.
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Book Account. The action was commenced before a justice of the peace, and came to the county court by appeal. Judgment to account was rendered in the county court, and an auditor was appointed, who reported the facts substantially as follows. On the seventeenth day of April, 3848, the plaintiff was a pound keeper in the town of Hartland, and on that day the defendant drove to the pound, of which the plaintiff was keeper, six swine, and delivered them to the plaintiff, to be impounded, as the defendant said, under the village law. He said, at the same time, that he might proceed against them…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kellogg, J.
The right of the plaintiff to recover for the keeping of the swine is claimed upon the ground, that no village was established in Hartland, pursuant to the statute, and embracing the place where the swine were taken, and consequently that the defendant had no authority to impound them for the cause alleged at the time of impounding them. The report, however, shows, that a proper application was made to the selectmen of Hartland: that they, on the thirty first of March, 1831, made an ordinance for establishing the north village in Hartland,…
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