Legal Opinion

Coburn v. Village of Swanton

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided October 4, 1921PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Action ok Tort for negligence. Heard on defendant’s demurrer to the amended complaint at the September Term, 1920, Franklin County, Stanton, J., presiding. Judgment, pro forma, overruling the demurrer and adjudging the complaint sufficient. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.

This case has once before been here on a question of pleading. It was then heard below on demurrer to the complaint, and came here on plaintiff’s exception to the judgment sustaining the demurrer. This judgment was affirmed, and the cause remanded with leave to apply. Coburn v. Village of Swanton, 94 Vt. 168, 109 Atl. 854. An amended complaint was thereupon filed, to which the defendant demurred. The demurrer was overruled pro forma without hearing, and the cause passed to this Court before trial on the defendant’s exception.

The main question raised by the demurrer, as at the former hearing,…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Plummer v. DillMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
  2. Meiers v. Fred Koch BreweryNew York Court of Appeals · 1920
  3. Purtell v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1912
  4. Milauskis v. Terminal RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1919
  5. Bottom's v. HawksSupreme Court of Vermont · 1911

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3Cited by7 opinions

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