Whittier v. Parmenter
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery. Heard on the pleadings and finding of facts by the Chancellor, at the September Term, 1914, Washington County, Miles, Chancellor. Decree dismissing the bill with costs. The plaintiff appealed. • The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
This is a bill in chancery involving the title to a portion of the bed of North Branch in the City of Montpelier. The land in dispute extends from a point about 'five rods north of the bridge in Cummings Street across said Branch up the stream to the northerly boundary of the plaintiff’s land.
On January 6, 1870, the plaintiff’s father, Robert H. Whittier, owned the land on both sides of the Branch north from *18Cummings Street which included the land now owned by the plaintiff and that owned by the Montpelier Ice Co., as well as the whole of the river bed as far north as the defendant’s land,…
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