Carter v. Wright & Hart
Supreme Court of Vermont
Book Account. Judgment to account was rendered in the County Court, and the case was referred to auditors, who reported the following facts: That in December, 1849, John Wright, one of the defendants, who then resided in Boston, Mass., came to Burlington for the purpose of getting up a Railroad Celebration or Jubilee, at said Burlington ; that he stopped at the defendant Hart’s Hotel while there, and had conversation with said Hart, relating to such celebration; and that at…
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Book Account. Judgment to account was rendered in the County Court, and the case was referred to auditors, who reported the following facts: That in December, 1849, John Wright, one of the defendants, who then resided in Boston, Mass., came to Burlington for the purpose of getting up a Railroad Celebration or Jubilee, at said Burlington ; that he stopped at the defendant Hart’s Hotel while there, and had conversation with said Hart, relating to such celebration; and that at that time, defendants, Wright and Hart, examined the rooms in said Hart’s Hotel, and a vacant lot of ground, opposite…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, Ch. J.
It is important to consider the general merits of this case, as the importance and construction of the incidental questions, depend very much upon the view the court take of the rights of the parties, as presented by the general facts in the case, in regard to which, there seems to be no ground of question, upon the finding of the auditors.
It is found by the auditors, that the iepresentation made by Wright and Nourse to the plaintiffs, upon which they delivered the goods, upon the joint credit of defendants, was that the defendants were…
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