Legal Opinion
Dunbar v. Farnum Wife
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided May 4, 1937PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Powers, C, J.
This is an action of contract to recover damages for the breach of an executory contract for the sale of a water system in the town of Lyndon. It was tried by jury in the court below, and, at the close of the evidence, a verdict was ordered for the defendants. The plaintiff excepted.
The defendants are husband and wife. They owned and operated the water system in question and thereby supplied their customers with domestic water at scheduled rates. They carried on this and other business, ostensibly as partners, under the firm name and style of Scott M. .Farnum & Wife. They…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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- Rogers v. WhitneySupreme Court of Vermont · 1917
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