McClary v. Town of Lowell
Supreme Court of Vermont
Aotion on the Case, to recover damages by reason of the insufficiency of the highway in Lowell. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury, February term, 1871, Orleans county, Redfield, J., presiding. The plaintiff received the injury complained of while driving a span of horses and buggy wagon from his residence, in Albany, over the highlands, to the village of Lowell, a distance of about eight miles, on Sunday.
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Aotion on the Case, to recover damages by reason of the insufficiency of the highway in Lowell. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury, February term, 1871, Orleans county, Redfield, J., presiding. The plaintiff received the injury complained of while driving a span of horses and buggy wagon from his residence, in Albany, over the highlands, to the village of Lowell, a distance of about eight miles, on Sunday. His business and purpose was to visit his two boys, who were then at the residence of Mr. Blaisdell, whose wife was the aunt of said boys and sister of plaintiff’s deceased wife. The…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wheeler, J.
Parents are rinder moral obligations to attend to the welfare of their children at all times during childhood and youth. These obligations cannot be fully satisfied without personal association and acquaintance when reasonably practicable. They are morally bound to improve all fit opportunities for the discharge of these duties. Both the constitutional and the statutory provisions relating to the observance of the Sabbath, in the laws of this State, were provided for the encouragement of the observance of moral duties on that day, in…
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