Blodget v. Town of Royalton
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass on the case, under the statute, to recover damages for injuries to the plaintiff’s horses and carriages, which happened in consequence of the insufficiency or want of repair of a certain road in Royalton. Plea, not guilty, and trial by jury.
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Trespass on the case, under the statute, to recover damages for injuries to the plaintiff’s horses and carriages, which happened in consequence of the insufficiency or want of repair of a certain road in Royalton. Plea, not guilty, and trial by jury. On the trial in the county court, the plaintiff, to show that the road in question was an open, public highway which the towirof Royalton were bound to keep in repair, and that he had sustained damages from its being out of repair, introduced the following testimony : ,1. A copy of a record of the supreme court in Orange county, showing a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by ,.
Williams, Ch. J.
It appears in this case that the plaintiff introduced testimony tending to prove that the injuries he sustained, and for which this action was brought, happened in the fall of the year 1S37, and in the spring of 1838, and it was incumbent on him to show that they happened from the insufficiency or want of repair of a highway in the town of Royalton.
So far as it was considered necesssary by the plaintiff to *294show a road legally laid out, surveyed, and opened, agreeably to the requisitions of the statute, he certainly failed in the…
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