Stacy v. Vermont Central Railroad
Supreme Court of Vermont
Debt upon an award by commissioner of the damages sustained by the plaintiff on account of his land being taken by the defendants for the use of their railroad. The declaration also contained a general count for the use and occupation of the plaintiff ’s premises by the defendants. Plea the general issue and trial by jury, at the September Term, 1858, Bennett, J., presiding.
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Debt upon an award by commissioner of the damages sustained by the plaintiff on account of his land being taken by the defendants for the use of their railroad. The declaration also contained a general count for the use and occupation of the plaintiff ’s premises by the defendants. Plea the general issue and trial by jury, at the September Term, 1858, Bennett, J., presiding. This cause was before the supreme court at the December Term, 1854, and is reported in the 27th Vermont Reports, page 89, and all the facts in any wise material to the view of the case, taken by this court at the present…
1Opinion of the CourtPierpoint, J.
This cause was before this court on exceptions, and was heard at the December Term, 1854. Many of the questions raised upon this hearing were then discussed and decided.
It is insisted that the facts as detailed in the bill of exceptions now before us, are so materially different from those presented for the consideration of the court on the former trial, as to require the application of different rules of law from those established and applied to the case upon that occasion.
Upon carefully examining the original bill of exceptions that *552was then before the court, and comparing it With the one…
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