Richardson v. Royalton & Woodstock Turnpike Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action commenced to the County Court counting upon the neglect of the defendants in maintaining and keeping in repair a bridge upon their road, over White River, whereby, the plaintiffs in driving cattle to Boston were damnified ; said bridge having broke under the weight of said cattle, and two of them killed and others damaged by being precipitated into the stream.
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This was an action commenced to the County Court counting upon the neglect of the defendants in maintaining and keeping in repair a bridge upon their road, over White River, whereby, the plaintiffs in driving cattle to Boston were damnified ; said bridge having broke under the weight of said cattle, and two of them killed and others damaged by being precipitated into the stream. The issue being duly joined, the plaintiffs adduced evidence tending to prove that in November A. D. 1831, they, in eompany with one or two other individuals were passing through the town of Royal ton in Windsor…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was pronounced by
Baylies, J.
The 5th Sec. of the Act establishing a corporation by the name of “ The Royalton and Woodstock Turnpike Company,” among other things says, that the “ said corporation shall be liable to pay all damages which may happen to any person from whom toll is demandable, or any other person, from neglect of any bridge, or want of repairs in said road.”
The plaintiffs, in their declaration, have averred in substance, that on the 5th of November, 1831, the defendants’ bridge over White River, on said turnpike road in said Royalton, from the neglect of…
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