City of Montpelier v. McMahon
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery. Heard on the pleadings, master’s report, and defendant’s exceptions thereto, at the March Term, 1911, Washington County, Miles, Chancellor. Exceptions overruled, pro forma, and decree for the orator in accordance with the prayer of the bill. The defendant appealed. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtHaselton, J.
This is a bill in chancery. The defendant is the owner of land abutting on Northfield street, so called, in the city of Montpelier. The bill alleges, among other things, that the defendant is threatening to build a piazza on a part of the street used for a sidewalk, and that he thereby threatens great injury to the inhabitants of Montpelier and of the State at large and that no adequate remedy at law can be had. The bill prays that the defendant be enjoined from so occupying the sidewalk. In his answer the defendant admits his intention to build a piazza on a part of the land used as a…
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