Wilder v. Stanley
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trustee Process. The commissioner found and reported substantially the following facts: The trustees, wanting work done, wrote to one Ramsey, whom they had employed some, to that effect, and he, being unable to do it, told the defendant about it, saying that he should expect to get $8 a day and his expenses for such work as was to be done, and that if defendant wanted to do the work, he would write the trustees, introducing him, and he did so.
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Trustee Process. The commissioner found and reported substantially the following facts: The trustees, wanting work done, wrote to one Ramsey, whom they had employed some, to that effect, and he, being unable to do it, told the defendant about it, saying that he should expect to get $8 a day and his expenses for such work as was to be done, and that if defendant wanted to do the work, he would write the trustees, introducing him, and he did so. The defendant went to do the work, expecting to get $3.50 a day, and began work on June 3, 1873, but made no express contract with the trustees as to…
1Opinion of the Court
*107The opinion of the court was delivered by
Royce, J.
This case was heard on the report of a commissioner appointed to take the disclosure of the trustees. It is claimed that the commissioner erred’in admitting certain testimony which is detailed in the report. But it does not appear that any question was raised or decided in the County Court in relation to the admissibility of that testimony. If the trustees wished to insist upon their objection to its admissibility, they should have filed exceptions to the report, based upon their objection to such testimony, and interposed it by way of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Graham v. StilesSupreme Court of Vermont · 1866
- Johnson v. DexterSupreme Court of Vermont · 1865
- Perry v. WhitneySupreme Court of Vermont · 1858
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