Blanchard v. Bowers
Supreme Court of Vermont
» Trespass. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the March term, 1894, Washington county, Tyler, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. The injuries complained of were toa certain building standing upon the land of the Central Vermont Railroad Company in Montpelier, and which the plaintiff claimed the right to occupy as the tenant of one Carl Bancroft.
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» Trespass. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the March term, 1894, Washington county, Tyler, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. The injuries complained of were toa certain building standing upon the land of the Central Vermont Railroad Company in Montpelier, and which the plaintiff claimed the right to occupy as the tenant of one Carl Bancroft. The defenáant justified his acts as the owner by purchase from this same Bancroft. The plaintiff claimed that upon the facts stated in the opinion the building was real estate, and he, as a tenant…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
The evidence does not disclose under what arrangement, if any, with the Central Vermont Railroad Company Arthur D. Bancroft’s storehouse was "erected and maintained on its land in his lifetime. But it does appear that after his death Johonnott, the guardian of Bancroft’s children, in March, 1885, made an arrangement with the railroad company by which it gave him a written license “to erect or construct or repair the old Bancroft storehouse,”' then on its land, upon the condition, among others, that he should remove all structures made by him on this ground,, and surrender up the premises…
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