Howe v. Howard
Supreme Court of Vermont
General Assumpsit. Pleas, tbe general issue, payment, accord and satisfaction, and declaration in offset. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1907, Windsor County, Powers, J., presiding. Yerdiet and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
While plaintiff was in possession of defendant’s farm under a contract of purchase, and owned the personal property on it, the two entered into an arrangement under which the defendant sold the farm and some of the personal property to a third party, and received the entire proceeds of the sale. In making this sale the defendant put in certain personal property of his own, and evidence of the value of this property was excluded as immaterial. The correctness of this ruling is the only question presented.
The exceptions state that the evidence of the plaintiff tended to show that the personal…
2Cited by1 opinion
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