Town of Concord v. National Bank
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was a petitiou to the County Court for an allowance of an appeal from a judgment of a justice of the peace. The action in which the judgment in question was rendered was brought by the petitionee against the petitioner, on January 1, 1877, on a coupon taken from a bond issued by .the petitioner in aid of the Essex County Railroad.
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This was a petitiou to the County Court for an allowance of an appeal from a judgment of a justice of the peace. The action in which the judgment in question was rendered was brought by the petitionee against the petitioner, on January 1, 1877, on a coupon taken from a bond issued by .the petitioner in aid of the Essex County Railroad. The bond was for $500, redeemable at the pleasure of the petitioner after September 1, 1876, and payable on September 1, 1891, at the First National Bank of Boston, with interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum from September 1, 1871, payable…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
This is a petition under the statute to be allowed an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace against the petitioner and in favor of the petitionee. The magistrate denied an appeal. The only question involved is, whether the appeal was properly refused.
The suit is predicated upon one of the coupons which originally was attached to a bond of $500, which, it is claimed, was issued by the town of Concord in- aid of the Essex County Railroad, and purports to be one of the semi-annual interest warrants attached to bond numbered 37,…
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