Congdon v. Torrey
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action of Contract. Pleas, the general issue, notice of special defences, and declaration in set-off with specification thereunder. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1919, Windsor County, Wilson, J., presiding, of certain issues involved. Verdict for the plaintiff. Thereupon the defendant filed a declaration in account as to the other matters involved, and, judgment to account having been entered, a trial by court was had thereon.
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Action of Contract. Pleas, the general issue, notice of special defences, and declaration in set-off with specification thereunder. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1919, Windsor County, Wilson, J., presiding, of certain issues involved. Verdict for the plaintiff. Thereupon the defendant filed a declaration in account as to the other matters involved, and, judgment to account having been entered, a trial by court was had thereon. The Court found there was nothing due the defendant on account of those matters. Judgment for the plaintiff for the amount of the verdict. The defendant excepted. The…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
The defendant answered this action of contract by filing a general denial, a notice of special defences, and a declaration in set-off with a specification thereunder. It was agreed by the parties that the cáse should go to trial by jury on the plaintiff’s claim to recover on account of labor and cash paid out for the defendant on a certain plumbing job, and the defendant’s claim in offset, excluding from the latter anything pertaining to the arrangement under which the plaintiff carried on the defendant’s farm. And it was further agreed that when-the jurors returned a verdict on that phase of…
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