Briggs v. Gleason
Supreme Court of Vermont
New trial. Surprise. New discovered evidence. Petition for a new trial on the ground of surprise, and of new discovered evidence. In October, 1845, the petitioner commenced a suit in his favor, returnable to the Chittenden county court, against one Alexis Chandler, in which the petitionees werq summoned as the trustees of the said Chandler.
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New trial. Surprise. New discovered evidence. Petition for a new trial on the ground of surprise, and of new discovered evidence. In October, 1845, the petitioner commenced a suit in his favor, returnable to the Chittenden county court, against one Alexis Chandler, in which the petitionees werq summoned as the trustees of the said Chandler. They appeared, and in answer to the plaintiff’s interrogatories, disclosed that on the 11th of November, 1849, they purchased of Chandler, about fifty acres of land and sixty tons of hay, for which they gave their note payable to Truman Chittenden, which…
1Opinion of the Court
*116The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bennett, J.
A new trial in this case is sought upon the ground of new discovered evidence. The petitioner had brought his action against one Alexis Chandler, and the defendants in this petition had been summoned as his trustees; and in a jury trial between the plaintiff and the trustees, they had been found, by a general verdict of the jury, not to be chargeable; and on the trial of the case it seems to have been a material question whether the deed from Chandler to the trustees, was in fact to be treated as a mortgage deed, notwithstanding it was…
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