Farr v. Searles

¶ 1. Defendant appeals from a relief-from-abuse order entered in the Rutland Family Court by Acting Judge John Liccardi, ordering defendant to refrain from abusing plaintiff Dawn Farr, a neighbor with whom defendant had been engaged in a longstanding dispute over parking. Plaintiff claimed that defendant ran into her with his van, causing her to fall down. Defendant argues on appeal that plaintiff failed to plead and prove that she was a vulnerable adult under the Abuse of Vulnerable Adults statute, 33 V.S.A. §§ 6901-6914, and the trial court failed to find the facts necessary to invoke such…