Hunt v. Tolles
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in chancery. Heard on the report of a special master and the orators’ exceptions thereto at the December Term, 1900, Windsor County, Start, Chancellor, presiding. Decree dismissing the bill. The orators appealed. The circumstances under which the additions to the cemetery were made, including the fact that the several additions were owned by descendants of Consul Jarvis, clearly indicate a dedication of the same to the purposes specified in the original grant.
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Appeal in chancery. Heard on the report of a special master and the orators’ exceptions thereto at the December Term, 1900, Windsor County, Start, Chancellor, presiding. Decree dismissing the bill. The orators appealed. The circumstances under which the additions to the cemetery were made, including the fact that the several additions were owned by descendants of Consul Jarvis, clearly indicate a dedication of the same to the purposes specified in the original grant. The school districts had no power to hold land for burial purposes. The selectmen had no authority over this cemetery because…
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
On the fifteenth day of September, 1813, William Jarvis, of Weathersfield, better known as Consul Jarvis, conveyed “to the inhabitants of the Third and Fourth School Districts in the town of Weathersfield, their heirs and assigns forever,” certain land in the town of Weathersfield, to be held by them “the said inhabitants of said districts their heirs, administrators, executors and assigns,” so long as the same should be improved for the sole purpose of a burying-ground; reserving to himself and his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, a lot three rods square near the center of the…
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