Houghton v. Cook
Supreme Court of Vermont
Two cases heard together. The first case was an action of ejectment. Plea, the general issue. Trial by court on the report of a referee at the September Term, 1913, Franklin County, Slack, J., presiding. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant excepted.
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Two cases heard together. The first case was an action of ejectment. Plea, the general issue. Trial by court on the report of a referee at the September Term, 1913, Franklin County, Slack, J., presiding. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant excepted. The second case was a suit in chancery, brought by one of the defendants in the action at law against the plaintiff therein, praying for the specific performance of a certain lease of the property involved in the ejectment suit, and for leave to redeem by paying what was due thereunder, and for an injunction restraining the plaintiff in this action…
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, C. J.
This controversy grows out of the lease of a farm and personal property thereon, executed by Francis J. Houghton to Perry G. Cook, and is presented in two cases which have been heard together. The first of these is an ejectment suit brought by Houghton against Cook and A. B. Beeman; Beeman being surety on the lease for Cook’s performance. The second is a bill in equity brought by Cook against Houghton, in which the ■ ejectment suit was enjoined. The cases were tried together on references, by a trier herein called the master, and the facts were embodied in one report, on which the cases were…
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