State v. Woodbury
Supreme Court of Vermont
'Indictment for nuisance in the maintaining of a slaughter house. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the March term, 1894, Washington county, Tyler, j., presiding. Verdict, guilty, and judgment on verdict. The respondent excepts.
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'Indictment for nuisance in the maintaining of a slaughter house. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the March term, 1894, Washington county, Tyler, j., presiding. Verdict, guilty, and judgment on verdict. The respondent excepts. The hypothetical question referred to in the opinion was as •follows: “Q. I will make a supposition then; if cattle were slaughtered at that barn about ten or fifteen feet back from the front of it, and the entrails, and the blood, and the horns, and the bones that were thrown away, were thrown into the basement under that barn floor, and a hog pen was maintained…
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
R. L., 3923, provides that no one shall carry on the business of butchering in a building without the *604written approval of the board of civil authority, describing the building and limiting the time during which he may carry on the business ; and imposes a penalty upon one who carries on the business without such approval or after the time limited. No. 82, Acts of 1892, authorizes the local board of health to abate all nuisances, sources of filth and causes of sickness ; imposes a penalty for a neglect or refusal to comply with its written order in that behalf; and empowers it in case of such…
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- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Vermont · 1882
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