Ovitt v. Chase
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass for taking certain cattle belonging to the plaintiff. Plea, the general issue and special pleas in bar, justifying the taking as collector of school district No. 1, in Jay. Trial by jury June Term, 1863, Poland, Ch. J., presiding. The facts are fully set forth in the opinion. Verdict for the plaintiff under a pro forma direction of the court. Exceptions by the defendant.
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Trespass for taking certain cattle belonging to the plaintiff. Plea, the general issue and special pleas in bar, justifying the taking as collector of school district No. 1, in Jay. Trial by jury June Term, 1863, Poland, Ch. J., presiding. The facts are fully set forth in the opinion. Verdict for the plaintiff under a pro forma direction of the court. Exceptions by the defendant. I. The vote to set off the plaintiff’s farm from district No. 1 to district No. 2 and proceedings are insufficient in form, and the warning is too indefinite. II. It is submitted that said farm, situate in district…
1Opinion of the CourtKellogg, J.
In the month of March, 1860, the plaintiff changed his residence to a farm which he had purchased, and which was then situated in the first school district in the town of Jay, and continued to reside on this farm during the remainder of that year. At a town meeting held in that town on the 12th of May in the same year, it was voted that this farm should be taken from that school district and be annexed and set to school district No. 2 in that town. In the grand list of the town for the year 1860, (which was not completed until after the time when this town meeting was held,) the plaintiff’s…
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