State v. Town of Jericho
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment for not making a highway pursuant to the order of the court. The indictment was as follows: “ STATE OF VERMONT, ) gg Be it remembered, * * * Chittenden codnty. j \ that at the term of the county court, begun and holden at Burlington, within and for the said county of Chittenden, on the third Tuesday of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, the report of a committee before that time duly appointed by said court to lay out a road…
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Indictment for not making a highway pursuant to the order of the court. The indictment was as follows: “ STATE OF VERMONT, ) gg Be it remembered, * * * Chittenden codnty. j \ that at the term of the county court, begun and holden at Burlington, within and for the said county of Chittenden, on the third Tuesday of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, the report of a committee before that time duly appointed by said court to lay out a road or highway “ commencing at some favorable point near Lyman Hall’s residence, or the residence of R. M. Clapp, of said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Barrett, J.
Indictment for not making the described highway pursuant to the order of the court.
It is agreed that the highway must be designated by some proper description, as it was laid and established, and though it might not be necessary to adopt, in its details, the descriptions given in the sui> vey, and shown by the record, still the indictment inust contain a *124description which would identify the road as being the one actually laid and established. This indictment seems to embody the survey made and reported to the county court by the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Clark v. StoughtonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1844
- State v. Inhabitants of BrookfieldSupreme Court of Vermont · 1830
3Cited by2 opinions
- In Re LockettCalifornia Supreme Court · 1919
- State v. Lang, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, Civil Division1907