Coburn v. Village of Swanton
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action op Tort to recover for personal injuries. Heard on defendant’s demurrer to the declaration in vacation after the March Term, 1919, Franklin County, Wilson, J., presiding. Demurrer sustained, declaration adjudged insufficient, and judgment for the defendant. The plaintiff excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtSlack, J.
This is an action of tort to recover for'personal injuries sustained by Irving E. Coburn, a boy twelve years of age.
The case is here on exceptions to the action of the trial court in sustaining the demurrer to the declaration.
The allegations in the declaration, material to our inquiry, are, in substance: That the defendant, at the time of the accident, and for a long time before, owned and operated an electric power plant where it generated, and distributed to the public, electricity; that the plant consisted of a power house wherein were located a large dynamo, machinery, and other…
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