Hyde v. Town of Swanton
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case foe negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury, Franklin County, March Term, 1899, Munson, J., presiding. Yerdict and judgment for the defendant. Tlie plaintiff excepted.
1Opinion of the CourtStaet, J.
The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show, that she received injuries by reason of the insufficiency of a box or catch basin which formed a part of a culvert at the intersection of First and Liberty streets in the Yillage of Swanton ; that the box was outside of the corporate limits of the village and within the limits of a highway that the defendant town was bound to maintain and keep in repair. About two years prior to the accident, one of the trustees of the village, supposing the point in question was within the corporate limits of the village, constructed the culvert and box and placed a…
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