Reed v. Stockwell & Warren
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit. This case, and another in favor of the same plaintiff against the defendant Stockwell alone, in which the plaintiff’s claim was sixty-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents on account, were originally brought before a justice of the peace, and were carried to the county court by appeal.
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Assumpsit. This case, and another in favor of the same plaintiff against the defendant Stockwell alone, in which the plaintiff’s claim was sixty-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents on account, were originally brought before a justice of the peace, and were carried to the county court by appeal. In the latter court the present case was referred by an agreement of the parties thereto, under a rule of which the following is a copy : “Referred to Abishai Stoddard to be tried'according to law, and all matters of controversy between the parties, together with the costs of this suit, growing out of…
1Opinion of the Court
Aldis J.
The objection to the decision of the county court h, that the court have found that Warren was not liable for the one hundred dollars, charged by the plaintiff to Stockwell & Warren, but that Stockwell was chargeable alone ; and that as the amount thus charged by plaintiff to Stockwell in this suit, being one hundred dollars, should properly have been joined to the sixty-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents, sought to be recovered by the plaintiff of Stockwell alone in the other suit, and if so joined would have exceeded the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace,— that these suits…
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