Jackson v. Walton
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trustee process. The trustee disclosed as follows: “ Sometime in the year 1852, 1 said to Mr. R. F. Abbott that I “ wanted some stone for a front walk. He replied that he could “probably procure or furnish them.- In the month of August “ 1853, Mr. Bradish served a trustee writ upon me as indebted “ to said Abbott. I had not then received the stone of any one.
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Trustee process. The trustee disclosed as follows: “ Sometime in the year 1852, 1 said to Mr. R. F. Abbott that I “ wanted some stone for a front walk. He replied that he could “probably procure or furnish them.- In the month of August “ 1853, Mr. Bradish served a trustee writ upon me as indebted “ to said Abbott. I had not then received the stone of any one. “ On the afternoon of the same’ day, or the forenoon of the next, “ (I am not certain which,) Mr. Moses Peck said to me that he “ had some granite stone for a walk to deliver me as the property “ of Mr. Drury, who had employed him to…
1Opinion of the Court
The o|)inion of the court was delivered, at the circuit session in September, 1856, by
Bennett, J.
This case comes up on exceptions to the decision of the county court rendering the trustee chargeable. It seems the case must /turn upon the question, to whom did Mr. Walton owe this debt ? If not to Mr. Abbott, he should not be adjudged chargeable. It is found in the case, that some time in the year 1852, Mr. Walton spoke to Mr. Abbott for the stone, and that he was answered by Mr. Abbott that he, Abbott, could probably furnish them; and it is expressly found by the commissioners that Abbott did…
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