Scott v. Moore
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit. Declaration in tbe common counts only. Pleas, tbe general issue, and pleas in offset. Trial by jury, December •term, 1867, Wilson, J., presiding.
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Assumpsit. Declaration in tbe common counts only. Pleas, tbe general issue, and pleas in offset. Trial by jury, December •term, 1867, Wilson, J., presiding. Tbe plaintiffs’ specification filed in tbe case, is as follows: “ Oct., 1865. To balance money paid out, and services buying-butter, $225.” It appeared on trial that in July, 1865, tbe defendants employed .tbe plaintiffs to buy butter for tbe defendants as tbeir agents, and gave them instructions as to tbe amount to buy per week, and to pay wbat others were paying, etc., and this action was brought .to recover tbe balance due the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
PRour, J.
On the argument of these exceptions three questions only ape insisted upon by the counsel of the defendants, the exception as to the correctness of the charge to the jury, being abandoned.
I. It is insisted that the county court had not jurisdiction of .the cause, but should have dismissed it on the defendants’ motion.
*209The action is assumpsit, the declaration containing the common counts only, and the plaintiffs’ specification filed in the cause, showing that they claimed to recover the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars. The motion to…
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- Miller v. LivingstonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1865
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