Powers v. Trustees of Caledonia County Grammar School
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery. Bill to reform' a so-called perpetual lease, and for tbe specific enforcement of said lease as reformed. Heard on tbe bill, answer, cross bill and answer, replications, and special master’s report at tbe June Term, 1914, Caledonia County, Butler, Chancellor. Decree for tbe plaintiffs. Tbe defendants appealed. Tbe opinion states tbe case.
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Appeal in Chancery. Bill to reform' a so-called perpetual lease, and for tbe specific enforcement of said lease as reformed. Heard on tbe bill, answer, cross bill and answer, replications, and special master’s report at tbe June Term, 1914, Caledonia County, Butler, Chancellor. Decree for tbe plaintiffs. Tbe defendants appealed. Tbe opinion states tbe case. Tbe court of chancery had authority to decree that tbe defendant execute to the plaintiffs such a conveyance as it, by the terms of its charter, had power to make in the year 1848. Lamp-son et al. v. New Haven, 2 Vt. 14; Mining & Qiwrrying…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
The plaintiffs have brought their bill in this case for the reformation of the so-called perpetual lease involved in the case of The Trustees of Caledonia County Grammar School v. S. Blanche Kent, an action of ejectment, in which a decision was rendered by this Court as reported in 86 Vt. 151, 84 Atl. 26, and for the specific enforcement of said lease as reformed. The plaintiff in the ejectment suit' is the defendant in this suit, and is hereinafter generally referred to as the “Grammar School.” In the ejectment case, judgment was reversed, and judgment rendered for the plaintiff therein to…
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