Town of Woodstock v. Gallup
Supreme Court of Vermont
Petition eor a certiorari. From the petition and proceedings in the county court, referred to, it appeared that the selectmen of the town of Woodstock laid out a highway through a house lot, and certain buildings of the petitionee, adjacent to the court house and town hall in said Woodstock, from which he appealed to the comity court.
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Petition eor a certiorari. From the petition and proceedings in the county court, referred to, it appeared that the selectmen of the town of Woodstock laid out a highway through a house lot, and certain buildings of the petitionee, adjacent to the court house and town hall in said Woodstock, from which he appealed to the comity court. The county- court appointed commissioners who reported that the public good, and the necessity and convenience of the public and of individuals required said highway and that they accordingly laid and established it; and, at the request of the appellant, they…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redeield, Ch. J.
This was an original proceeding in this court by way of petition served upon the opposite party, by process in the usual mode, setting forth, in substance, that a petition was pending in the county court, for the purpose of laying out a highway, in the town of Woodstock, through the defendant’s land, and that the report of the commissioners, establishing such highway, having been filed in that court, it was by such court decided, as matter of law, that they had no power to accept the report and establish the highway, on account of…
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