Mason v. Chase

This is a petition for a new trial brought to this Court. The ground of the petition is that counsel for the petitioner acted under a mistake of law but in an area where the law was unsettled.

When this case was last before us, 119 Vt 283,126 A2d 89, the petitioner stated in his reply brief:

"In the instant case, the records of Rutland County Court relating to Mason v. Clarence Carr, Volume 73, page 590, and the docket entries in that cause, both record the Court’s permission for execution forthwith. If this Court takes the view that the inclusion of this portion of the County Court records is…