Hartford v. School District No. 13
Supreme Court of Vermont
General Assumpsit. Plea, the general issue. Trial by court at the May Term, 1896, Windsor County, Tyler, J., presiding. The action was brought to recover the funds in the hands of the defendant when the act of 1892 abolishing the former school districts went into operation.
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General Assumpsit. Plea, the general issue. Trial by court at the May Term, 1896, Windsor County, Tyler, J., presiding. The action was brought to recover the funds in the hands of the defendant when the act of 1892 abolishing the former school districts went into operation. The defendant, against the plaintiff’s exception, introduced in evidence an order given one H. E. Tinker, in 1885, by the defendant’s prudential committee, and claimed that the amount of the same should be deducted from the funds in its hands.
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
The question litigated before the county court was whether the balance otherwise payable to the plaintiff, as shown by the accounts of the defendant, should be reduced by an allowance of the Tinker order as an indebtedness of the district; and the court rendered judgment for the plaintiff for the balance shown by the accounts with that order disallowed. The defendant excepted to the introduction of the auditor’s report showing the accounts, and to the rendition of such judgment. In the accounts presented were two items of cash received for tuitions and hay, to which the attention of the court…
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