Churchill v. Capen
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery. Addison County. Heard at Chambers on June 9, 1910, on the pleadings, master’s report, and defendant’s exceptions thereto, Taylor, Chancellor. Decree for the orators “in accordance with the prayer of the bill”. The defendant appealed. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Watson J.
The case as presented to this Court is based upon the allegations in the bill that prior to and on the second day of January, 1902, the complainant, George H. Churchill, was the owner of a leasehold estate in a portion of lot number 7, in the town of Goshen, in this State, the reversioner being the town of. Chittenden; that he held such estate as assignee of a perpetual lease from the last named town, by which lease an annual rent of eight dollars is reserved- to the town; that-on the day ..first...above napied he and. his wife, the complainant Jennie M. Churchill, by their deed of…
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