Stevens v. Kent
Supreme Court of Vermont
Replevin for a wagon. Plea, the general issue, and trial by the court. On the trial, the taking of the wagon by tbe defendant was conceded.
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Replevin for a wagon. Plea, the general issue, and trial by the court. On the trial, the taking of the wagon by tbe defendant was conceded. It was also proved, that there had been a school district, in Newbury, supporting schools, holding school meetings regularly and doing business generally done by school districts, for the last forty years, called district No. 3. It further appeared, that at a regular meeting of said district, duly warned, and held on the 30th day of September, A. D. 1850, (being the annual meeting,) the warning of which contained among other articles the following : “1st.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redeield, Ch. J.
I. In regard to the necessity of having the moderator of a school district meeting who was appointed at the annual meeting the same during the whole year ; it seems to us of no importance. If it was really the object of the statute to have the moderator of such meetings hold office during the year, which seems to be the import of the ch. 20, § 25 of the Compiled Statutes, it never could have been exp>ected, that if it became *511desirable to hold other meetings, than the annual meeting, and the moderator was not present, that his place…
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