Cheney v. Pierce
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit for use and occupation of real estate, with other common cminls. Plea in offset, payment, etc. Trial by jury, September Term. 1805, Kellogg, J. presiding.
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Assumpsit for use and occupation of real estate, with other common cminls. Plea in offset, payment, etc. Trial by jury, September Term. 1805, Kellogg, J. presiding. The facts are so far stated in the opinion of the court, that it is only necessary to add, that the repairs referred to in the opinion consisted in building over old stone walls and by building new stone walls and new board fences, (the expense of which was in the whole $129.00) and by cementing the cellar of the dwelling house, and by repairing, papering, whitewashing, and painting said dwelling house, and by repairing other…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Peck, J.
The action is assumpsit for use and occupation of real estate with other common counts, pleas in offset, payment, etc. The questions arise upon the plaintiff’s claim, for use and occupation. The premises consist of about fifty acres of farming lands, dwelling house and .outbuildings, in Clarendon, in which the plaintiff’s wife, Alletta^had an estate in dower, set to her out of the estate of Chris*523topher Pierce, her former husband, in 1839. The defendant is the son of Christopher Pierce and his wife, the said Alletta. The plaintiff married the…
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