French v. Town of Barre
Supreme Court of Vermont
Road Petition under secs. 2940-43 of the Revised Laws. At the September Term, 1885, Powers, J., presiding, the report of the commissioners was accepted and the highway therein described established. Two hundred and fifty dollars as damages were allowed the Methodist Episcopal Society of Barre.
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Road Petition under secs. 2940-43 of the Revised Laws. At the September Term, 1885, Powers, J., presiding, the report of the commissioners was accepted and the highway therein described established. Two hundred and fifty dollars as damages were allowed the Methodist Episcopal Society of Barre. The agreement signed, September 17, 1861, by the stewards of the M. E. Society, was as follows: “We, the undersigned stewards of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Barre, hereby promise and agree, that in consideration of certain stipulations and agreements this day made and entered into by and between…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Walker, J.
The statute allowing questions of law arising upon the trial of petitions for establishing or discontinuing highways and the assessment of damages growing out of such petitions to be passed to the Supreme Court upon exceptions as in other cases, provides that no judgment of *570the County Court which has been rendered in such proceeding shall be reversed, unless the Supreme Court would have granted a writ of certiorari for the same cause. The writ of certiorari is not deman dable as a matter of strict legal right, but it rests in the discretion…
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