Town of Glastenbury v. Administrator of the Estate of McDonald
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill in chancery. The bill set forth that on the 25th day of May, 1861, Property McDonald, of Glastenbury, in the county of Bennington, having no legal, equitable or moral claim or demand whatever against the orator, but fraudulently contriving and intending to appropriate to himself tbe moneys and other property of the tax-payers of the orator, with the intent to cheat and defraud said tax-payers, and to compel them to pay him a sum of money to which he was not entitled,…
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Bill in chancery. The bill set forth that on the 25th day of May, 1861, Property McDonald, of Glastenbury, in the county of Bennington, having no legal, equitable or moral claim or demand whatever against the orator, but fraudulently contriving and intending to appropriate to himself tbe moneys and other property of the tax-payers of the orator, with the intent to cheat and defraud said tax-payers, and to compel them to pay him a sum of money to which he was not entitled, fraudulently conspired with one Jeremiah McDonald, the father of the said Property, and with one John W. McDonald, the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Ross, J.
The orator asks that the order for $500, given by Jeremiah McDonald and John W. McDonald, as selectmen of the orator, and dated May 25, 1861, may be ordered to be surrendered and cancelled, as having been obtained and given through the fraud of Property McDonald, and of his father and brother, the selectmen who signed the order. The order was given in settlement of a- suit then pending against the town in favor of Property McDonald, to recover- for injuries alleged to have been received by him through the insufficiency of a highway, which it…
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