Pelton v. Place
Supreme Court of Vermont
Chancery. Heard upon pleadings, master’s report and exceptions thereto, at the September term, 1898, Franklin county, before Tyler, Chancellor, who overruled the defendants’ exceptions and rendered a decree for the orator, for $79.65, with interest from June 15, 1898, and costs. The defendants appealed.
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Chancery. Heard upon pleadings, master’s report and exceptions thereto, at the September term, 1898, Franklin county, before Tyler, Chancellor, who overruled the defendants’ exceptions and rendered a decree for the orator, for $79.65, with interest from June 15, 1898, and costs. The defendants appealed. In the early spring of 1885 the defendants and others, wishing to form an association for horse training and racing, and finding that the orator and the defendant Skeels owned severally two adjoining tracts of land suitable for a course, entered into an arrangement with the orator whereby the…
1Opinion of the CourtRowell, J.
In the lease of July 2, 1885, which is the foundation of the suit, the orator and the defendant Skeels are lessors, and The Highgate Driving Club is named as lessee, and as acting in the transaction by the defendants and Tuller, its directors. But the instrument is not the deed of the Club, for it is not executed in its name nor sealed with its seal, but is signed and sealed by the defendants and Tuller in their individual capacity only. The master has found on parol testimony objected to, that they in fact signed as directors and not otherwise, and were thereunto authorized, and that the…
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