Legal Opinion

Ex parte Bostwick

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided January 15, 1826PublishedCited by 1 opinion

THIS was a petition to the Supreme Court, praying for the appointment of a committee, to discontinue a road in New-Haven, originally laid by a committee, appointed by act of the Legislature.

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THIS was a petition to the Supreme Court, praying for the appointment of a committee, to discontinue a road in New-Haven, originally laid by a committee, appointed by act of the Legislature. The petition was predicated on the third section of the act of the Legislature, passed Nov. 16,1825. (Acts o/T825,p. 22.) It was filed in Court, on the fourth day of the term, and was without citation or notice to the town; and it became a question, whether it was not necessary that the town, or others, should be notified of the pendeney of the petition ?

1Opinion of the Court

The Court

took time to consider the question ; but, on a subsequent day of the term, proceeded to appoint the committee, without having ordered notice to the town, or others.

2Cited by1 opinion

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