Town of Underhill v. Town of Jericho
Supreme Court of Vermont
Petition to the supreme court for the county of Chittenden to bring forward a cause upon its docket and correct the judgment of the court therein. The case, 64 Vt. 362, was first brought before a justice of the peace and came upon appeal into the county court. There the defendant pleaded that the justice had no jurisdiction for that he was a resident of one of the towns interested in the event of the suit, and that the suit should therefore abate.
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Petition to the supreme court for the county of Chittenden to bring forward a cause upon its docket and correct the judgment of the court therein. The case, 64 Vt. 362, was first brought before a justice of the peace and came upon appeal into the county court. There the defendant pleaded that the justice had no jurisdiction for that he was a resident of one of the towns interested in the event of the suit, and that the suit should therefore abate. The plaintiff traversed this plea and a trial was had by court upon the issue thus formed. Upon the facts found by the court the defendant was…
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, C. J.
This is a petition preferred to the supreme Court for the county of Chittenden at its January term, 1893, setting forth that the town of Jericho had a cause pending against the petitioner in the supreme court of that county at its January term, 1892, which was heard; that the cause had not been heard upon its merits in the county court; that the supreme court reversed the judgment of the county court and rendered judgment in chief against the petitioner, thereby depriving the petitioner of the right to a trial upon the merits of the cause; that the judgment so rendered was an error, or…
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