Town v. Lamphere
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action founded upon the act of the legislature, entitled “ an act in alteration of chapter ninety-six of the Compiled Statutes, relating to the preservation of sheep,” approved November 12, 1856, and was brought to recover the penalty therein provided for suffering rams to be at large off the enclosure of the owner, and came into the county court by appeal from the judgment of a justice. Plea, the general issue, and notice of special matter.
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This was an action founded upon the act of the legislature, entitled “ an act in alteration of chapter ninety-six of the Compiled Statutes, relating to the preservation of sheep,” approved November 12, 1856, and was brought to recover the penalty therein provided for suffering rams to be at large off the enclosure of the owner, and came into the county court by appeal from the judgment of a justice. Plea, the general issue, and notice of special matter. Trial by the court, at the May term, A. D. 1861, Redpield, Ch. J., presiding. From the statement of facts agreed upon by the parties, it…
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, J.
The questions in this case arise under the provisions of chapter ninety-six, Comp. Stat., and the amendments thereto.
Sec. 1 requires that all rams shall be restrained from going at large from August 1st to December 1st.
Sec, 2 makes it the duty of the owner or keeper of a ram, before the first day of August, to put upon it the initials of the name of the owner or keeper.
Sec 3 provides that if any ram is found going at large off the possession or enclosure of its owner or keeper, without such mark, within the aforesaid period, it shall be forfeited and become *367the property of any one who shall…
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