Stiles v. Estabrook
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass quare clausum. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June term, 1893, Caledonia county, Taft J., presiding. The jury returned a general verdict for the plaintiff with special findings, and upon this verdict the ■ court gave judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. What the defendant proposed to ask the witness Guyer on cross examination grew out of the direct examination, and it was his legal right to ask it.
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Trespass quare clausum. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June term, 1893, Caledonia county, Taft J., presiding. The jury returned a general verdict for the plaintiff with special findings, and upon this verdict the ■ court gave judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. What the defendant proposed to ask the witness Guyer on cross examination grew out of the direct examination, and it was his legal right to ask it. Wood v. Willard 37 Vt. 390 and note; Powersv. Silsby, et al., 41 Vt. 288. The finding of the jury that the plaintiff had title by adverse possession renders…
1Opinion of the CourtTyler, J.
The plaintiff and defendant owned adjoining premises situated on the west side of Railroad street in the village of St. Johnsbury, extending westerly from that street about sixteen rods to Pearl street, which is nearly parallel to Railroad street, both streets running substantially north and south. The defendant’s premises are next south of the plaintiff’s, and the controversy related to the division line between them. It was conceded that a certain mark in the stone curbing on the west side of Railroad street was the true boundary at that point, and that the division line between the…
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