Whitcomb v. Rood
Supreme Court of Vermont
In this case, which came to the county court by appeal, the defendant, at the first term, filed a motion to dismiss the suit, and assigned as cause, that the suit was originally commenced before a justice of the peace and was once continued by him; that in the absence of the justice at the day to which it had so been continued, it was again continued by another justice; and that at the day to which it was so continued the defendant appeared and moved to dismiss the suit, for…
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In this case, which came to the county court by appeal, the defendant, at the first term, filed a motion to dismiss the suit, and assigned as cause, that the suit was originally commenced before a justice of the peace and was once continued by him; that in the absence of the justice at the day to which it had so been continued, it was again continued by another justice; and that at the day to which it was so continued the defendant appeared and moved to dismiss the suit, for the reason that it had been so continued by another justice; which motion was overruled and judgment rendered for the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Roves, Ch. J.
It has not been questioned in the argument, but that the defendant might appeal from the judgment against him, without losing the benefit of his motion to dismiss, provided that motion was well founded, when made in the justice court. Indeed, this is *52impliedly admitted by the plaintiff, in his manner of answering the motion, when renewed in the county court. He resisted it solely on the ground, that it was unfounded in law. Hence we have only to determine, whether the action became legally discontinued on the second Tuesday of November, as…
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