Legal Opinion

Boutwell v. Marr

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided February 15, 1899PublishedCited by 41 opinions

Case. Trial by jury at the September term, 1895, Washington county, Start, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs. The defendants excepted. At the close of the testimony the defendants moved for a verdict for insufficiency of evidence. The motion was overruled.

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Case. Trial by jury at the September term, 1895, Washington county, Start, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs. The defendants excepted. At the close of the testimony the defendants moved for a verdict for insufficiency of evidence. The motion was overruled. The jury were permitted to include exemplary damages in their verdict, but were required to report the amount thereof separately. cited, State v. Johnson, 40 Kan. 266; People v. Parker, 67 Mich. 222; Spies v. People, 122 111. 1; Ford v. State, 112 Ind. 373; State v. Weaver, 57 la. 730; Benford v. Sanner, 40 Pa. St. 9;…

1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.

On the sixth day of June, 1893, the plaintiffs obtained a bond for the conveyance of a mill in Barre, equipped with machinery for polishing granite; and on the sixteenth day of the month they received a deed and took possession of the property, and became co-partners under the name of the Boutwell Polishing Company. The mill had been operated for several years by the plaintiffs’ grantor; and in the interval between the taking of the bond and the receipt of the deed, the plaintiffs saw the patrons of the mill and received assurances of a continuance of their custom, limited in the case of some…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. StewartSupreme Court of Vermont · 1887

3Cited by41 opinions

  1. Woodhouse v. Woodhouse Et Ux.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1925
  2. Martell v. WhiteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
  3. Lohse Patent Door Co. v. FuelleSupreme Court of Missouri · 1908
  4. Group Health Cooperative v. King County Medical SocietyWashington Supreme Court · 1951
  5. My Maryland Lodge No. 186 of MacHinists v. AdtCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1905

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