Dow v. Town of Hinesburgh
Supreme Court of Vermont
MOTION by the plaintiff, for a new trial, founded on exceptions,taken on the trial at the last term of Chittenden county court, which were agreed to by counsel, and certified to this Court in the following case made:— “This was an action of ejectment, brought to recover the possession of a certain tract or parcel of land, with the appurtenances, lying and being in the town of Hinesburgh, in said county of Chittenden, and described as follows, to wit, the east half of lot No.…
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MOTION by the plaintiff, for a new trial, founded on exceptions,taken on the trial at the last term of Chittenden county court, which were agreed to by counsel, and certified to this Court in the following case made:— “This was an action of ejectment, brought to recover the possession of a certain tract or parcel of land, with the appurtenances, lying and being in the town of Hinesburgh, in said county of Chittenden, and described as follows, to wit, the east half of lot No. 30, in the second division. On the trial of the cause, it was agreed by the parties, that in the charter of said town…
1Opinion of the CourtHutchinson, J.
delivered the following opinion :
This is an action of ejectment, for a lot of land, which has been regularly allotted to the right granted to the first settled minister in said town, as is agreed by both parties.
It appears by the case, that the plaintiff claims tifie to the same, under one Reuben Parmelee, who, he says, was the first settled minister in said town. The town, by their tenant, Weed, having possession of the premises, and that, probably, by virtue of a statute relating to those rights of land, can hold possession, till some person, in the character of the first settled minister…
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