West-Nesbitt, Inc. v. Ralston Purina Company

This action is in equity and was instituted by the plaintiff to obtain declaratory relief and the dissolution of an attachment levied by the defendant on a farm formerly owned by Glendon and Shirley Randall in the town of Marsh- field, Vermont. The chancellor’s findings and declaratory decree are based on an agreed statement of facts which was enlarged by oral and documentary evidence.

The core of the controversy is a stipulation entered by the plaintiff and the Randalls on May 7, 1968 to accomplish the settlement and discontinuance of an action at law brought by the plaintiff in the…