Chase v. Bernier
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action of assumpsit which came into the County Court on appeal from a justice. The plaintiff filed a motion to dismiss the appeal. Heard on said motion, Caledonia County, June Term, 1900, Taft, C. J., presiding. The court rendered judgment sustaining the motion and dismissing the appeal. The defendant excepted.
1Opinion of the CourtStafford, J.
The questions arise under V. S. 1298, regulating appeals from justice judgments. The action was commenced before a justice of the peace, from whose judgment the defendant appealed. In County Court the plaintiff moved that the appeal be dismissed, “for that the case is not appealable, as appears by the justice copy of record and appeal.” The appeal was dismissed, and the defendant excepted. The justice copy *308is not before us, but in its place the bill of exceptions states, that the ad damnum was twenty dollars; that the declaration in the writ was in the general counts in assumpsit and set the…
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