Carlisle v. Town of Sheldon
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action on the case, for an injury sustained by the wife of Henry Carlisle by reason of the insufficiency and want of repair of a highway in the town of Sheldon, being an action for an injury that would survive to the wife. Trial by jury, April Term, 1865, Aldis, J., presiding.
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Action on the case, for an injury sustained by the wife of Henry Carlisle by reason of the insufficiency and want of repair of a highway in the town of Sheldon, being an action for an injury that would survive to the wife. Trial by jury, April Term, 1865, Aldis, J., presiding. The evidence of the plaintiffs tended to show, that, as the plaintiffs, on a dark night, were driving along the highway where the road is built upon a side hill that begins to slope about two feet from the west margin of the road, and falls about seventy feet in a distance of one hundred feet from the road to the river,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kellogg, J.
This case has been heard in this court upon two distinct bills of exceptions taken by the plaintiffs, in the county court, one of which has reference to the decision of that court over-ruling the motion for a new trial, and the other of which has reference to the charge given by the court to the jury on the trial.
*444The motion for a new trial was denied by the county court for the reason that the testimony introduced and relied upon in support of it, if true, was insufficient in point of law to justify the court in setting aside the verdict;…
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