Tyler v. Beacher
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was a petition brought by the plaintiff who was the owner of a grist-mill situated on the outlet of Island Pond, in this county, under the flowage acts of 1866-7-9, to have the height to which he may keep his dam and raise the water in said pond established, and to have the defendants’ damages by reason thereof assessed.
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This was a petition brought by the plaintiff who was the owner of a grist-mill situated on the outlet of Island Pond, in this county, under the flowage acts of 1866-7-9, to have the height to which he may keep his dam and raise the water in said pond established, and to have the defendants’ damages by reason thereof assessed. At the March term, 1870, of the court, the defendants demanded a jury trial, but the court appointed three commissioners to perform the duties required by the aforesaid acts, to which the defendants excepted. At the first sitting of the commissioners, the defendants by…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wheeler, J.
The statutes relating to flowage gave jurisdiction of all proceedings under them to the county court, at the sessions, the same as if the administration of those matters had been given to any other court or board, and the same as the statutes in relation to laying out and discontinuing highways, and those in relation to locating school-houses, and some other similar matters, have made that court at the sessions a board of authority to administer their provisions. The statutes in relation to the passing of causes from that court to this, upon…
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