Gregg v. Town of Weathersfield
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit. Plea, general issue. Trial by jury, December Term, 1882, Taft, J., presiding. Verdict ordered for the defendant. The case is stated in the opinion.
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Assumpsit. Plea, general issue. Trial by jury, December Term, 1882, Taft, J., presiding. Verdict ordered for the defendant. The case is stated in the opinion. A corporation has power to settle disputed claims against it. 1 Dillon Corp. s. 477 ; Bean v. Jay,.23 Me. 117; 14 111. 193; 7 Pick. 18; 9 Pick. 298; 14 Johns. 330. In Hanover v. Eaton, 3 N. EL 32, it was held that the selectmen acting as overseers may bind their town not to take advantage of a defect in a notice respecting a pauper. Same principle held in Embeden v. Augusta, 12 Mass. 307; 16 Mass. 102; Augusta v. Leadbeater, 16 Me. 48.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Powers, J.
The plaintiff offered evidence tending to prove that, without fault on his part, he had suffered damage by reason of the insufficiency of a highway in the defendant town, which the town was bound by law to keep in repair; that he gave a written notice of such injury to the town, proper in form, within thirty days of the happening of the accident, but not within twenty days as the law requires; and that he was misled respecting the time within which such notice should be given by information given him, on which he relied, by one of the…
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