West River Bridge Co. v. Dix
Supreme Court of Vermont
Motion for a writ of certiorari, for the re-examination and revision of the proceedings of the county court on the petition of Dix and others for a public highway. The writ was granted, and the case came on for a hearing upon the facts appearing upon the record.
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Motion for a writ of certiorari, for the re-examination and revision of the proceedings of the county court on the petition of Dix and others for a public highway. The writ was granted, and the case came on for a hearing upon the facts appearing upon the record. It appeared that the petitioners weve, by an act of the legislature passed Oct. 16, 1795, constituted a body politic and corporate, to continue for the term of one hundred years, with the exclusive privilege of erecting and continuing a bridge over West River in Brattleboro, and of taking a certain toll for crossing the same. That the…
1Per curiam
This is a motion for a writ of certiorari, which the court, by favor, and in order to enable the plaintiffs to place their case in the most available shape for carrying it by writ of error to the supreme court of the United States, have allowed, reserving the hearing and decision of all questions, arising in the case, untiL the coming in of the record of the county court.
This mode of proceeding will doubtless give the plaintiffs one advantage, to which they would not otherwise be entitled; that is, if now, upon inspection of the record and proceedings of the county court, error appears, the…
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