Fay v. Kent
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action under tbe statute, G. S. c. 52, ss. 15, 16,17, (R. L. ss. 2138, 2139). Heard on demurrer to the defendant’s pleas, March Term, 1881, Redfield, J., presiding. Demurrer overruled.
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Action under tbe statute, G. S. c. 52, ss. 15, 16,17, (R. L. ss. 2138, 2139). Heard on demurrer to the defendant’s pleas, March Term, 1881, Redfield, J., presiding. Demurrer overruled. Copy of the amended declaration : “ Also in a further plea of the case brought on sections 15,16 and 17 of chapter 52 of the General Statutes of this State, for that the defendant heretofore, to wit, on the 29th day of July, A. D. 1879, at Calais, in the County of Washington, excavated for sand by digging into the bank and leaving, without right, a certain other hole and excavation in said bank, unsafe and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Royce, Ch. J.
The demurrer puts in issue the sufficiency ot the declaration. If that is bad in substance, there is no occasion to examine the special causes of demurrer assigned to the pleas. The only substantial difference between the first count in this declaration and the-one that has been adjudged bad, is in the addition of the averment that the deceased, while passing along and over said public highway without any knowledge that the same was unsafe and dangerous, did enter into said hole and excavation, he then having a lawful right so to do.
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