Ballard v. Brown
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit. Plea, the general issue. Trial by court at the December term, 1894, Windsor county, Ross, C. Ji, presiding. Upon the facts found the court gave judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. Taylor was the plaintiffs agent, hence the letter written by him to defendant was admissible.
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Assumpsit. Plea, the general issue. Trial by court at the December term, 1894, Windsor county, Ross, C. Ji, presiding. Upon the facts found the court gave judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. Taylor was the plaintiffs agent, hence the letter written by him to defendant was admissible. Weeks v. Barron, .38 Vt. 420; Baldwin v. Doubleday, 59 Vt. 7 ; Commonwealth v. Keyes, 11 Gray 323 ; Connecticut v. Bradish, 14 Mass. 296. The contract was against public policy, and void. Taiman v. Shader, 23 111. 493 : Woodruff v. Hinman, 11 Vt. 592; Danforth v. Evans, 16 Vt. 538 ; Collamer v.…
1Opinion of the CourtRowell, J.
The letter from Taylor to the defendant, offered in evidence and excluded, is not before us nor its contents stated. We cannot, therefore, say whether it was admissible or not, even though authorized by the plaintiff, which does not appear and was not offered to be shown. Ainsworth v. Hutchins, 52 Vt. 554.
In the fall of 1889, plaintiff and. defendant agreed that plaintiff’s horse should trot in a race then soon to be had at a fair in Barton, and win it, and that defendant should pay him therefor one hundred dollars and keep him and his horse and driver. The race was for a purse offered by the…
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