Pierson v. Catlin
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit. The declaration contained four special and three general counts. In the first count the plaintiff averred, in substance, that, on the 30th day of May, 1817, the defendant conveyed to him and one John Pierson certain tracts of land in Essex, in Chittenden county, and the plaintiff, then Uzal Pierson, Jr., John Pierson and Uzal Pierson, senior, thereupon executed to the defendant their promissory notes, in the whole amounting to three thousand dollars; that…
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Assumpsit. The declaration contained four special and three general counts. In the first count the plaintiff averred, in substance, that, on the 30th day of May, 1817, the defendant conveyed to him and one John Pierson certain tracts of land in Essex, in Chittenden county, and the plaintiff, then Uzal Pierson, Jr., John Pierson and Uzal Pierson, senior, thereupon executed to the defendant their promissory notes, in the whole amounting to three thousand dollars; that subsequently the defendant commenced suits upon those notes, in Chittenden county court, and, while the suits were pending in…
1Opinion of the Court
*84The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
This case has been very long before the court in this State, — in one form or another for more than twenty years.* In proportion, therefore, as there is the more necessity and the more earnest desire “ to bury it out of sight,” there is probably less hope of being able to compass such a result.
It does not seem to the court to be a case, in regard to which there is any very great difficulty. The embarrassment in the case seems always to have arisen, from making this defendant liable for the acts of Ed ward Pierson, after the judgment was…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Allen v. OgdenSupreme Court of Vermont · 1840
- Pierson v. CatlinSupreme Court of Vermont · 1830
3Cited by4 opinions
- Blondin v. BrooksSupreme Court of Vermont · 1910
- Ruocco v. LogioccoSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
- Mutual Life Insurance v. NewtonSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1888
- Nichols v. SmithSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1853