Bessette v. Goddard
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery, Lamoille County. Heard at chambers, November 22, 1911, on demurrer to bill, Taylor, Chancellor. Demurrer sustained, pro forma, bill adjudged insufficient and dismissed with costs. The orator appealed.
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Appeal in Chancery, Lamoille County. Heard at chambers, November 22, 1911, on demurrer to bill, Taylor, Chancellor. Demurrer sustained, pro forma, bill adjudged insufficient and dismissed with costs. The orator appealed. This is a suit in chancery to restrain the town of Hyde Park, its selectmen, and the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Railroad Co., from executing an order of the Public Service Commission requiring the elimination of certain public highway crossings at grade on the “River Road” in said town, and an alteration of that section of said road by substituting therefor a portion of…
1Opinion of the CourtRowell, C. J.
This case was heard at the May Term, 1912, and held for consideration. At a Special Term in December of that year, the case of Sabre v. The Rutland R. R. Co. 86 Vt. 347, was heard, and decided in January. In that case it became and was necessary to decide whether the Public Service Commission is a legal body, and if so, to define its nature and character as such. The Court met that necessity, and decided that it is a legal body, and defined it as being an administrative body clothed in some respects with functions of a judicial nature— quasi judicial functions the Court said they might be…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Davis v. County CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
- Sabre v. Rutland RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1913
- Bacon v. Boston & Maine RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1910
- Ewing v. City of St. LouisSupreme Court of the United States · 1867
- Blanchard v. City of BarreSupreme Court of Vermont · 1905
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3Cited by10 opinions
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- Sayers v. Montpelier & Wells River RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1916
- George v. Consolidated Lighting Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1914
- Colonial Power & Light Co. v. CreaserSupreme Court of Vermont · 1914
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