Slason v. Cannon & Warren
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was a petition for a new trial and for leave to file a bill of review in a case heard in this court at the February Term, 1842, on appeal from the court of chancery; in which case Cannon & Warren were complainants and this petitioner and one Norton were defendants.* The principal ground of the present application was the alleged discovery of new evidence, a portion of which was stated to have been discovered between the time of the hearing before the chancellor and of…
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This was a petition for a new trial and for leave to file a bill of review in a case heard in this court at the February Term, 1842, on appeal from the court of chancery; in which case Cannon & Warren were complainants and this petitioner and one Norton were defendants.* The principal ground of the present application was the alleged discovery of new evidence, a portion of which was stated to have been discovered between the time of the hearing before the chancellor and of the decision on the appeal in this court. After argument by E. L. Ormsbee and E. Edgerton for the petioner, and by R. R.…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The first inquiry in this case is, whether the application for relief is properly made to this court. Our present chancery system is of recent origin, and I am not aware that the question now presented has been settled by the adjudication of this court. It is to be determined by the construction of the Revised Statutes.
By the Revised Statutes, chapter 24, a court of chancery is con*220stituted, consisting of the several judges of the supreme court, who are made chancellors in their respective circuits; and the court of chancery, thus constituted, is invested “ with the powers and jurisdiction of…
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