Burris v. Baxter

—This was a suit to enforce assessments for the construction of a sewer in the city of Montpelier, known as the Green street sewer, in favor of the appellee Samuel A. Baxter, the assignee of the appellee Edwin J. Miller, the contractor, against three parcels of real estate owned by the appellant. There were three paragraphs of complaint, each relating to the assessment on one of the three parcels; otherwise the paragraphs were substantially alike. The appellant answered in five paragraphs, the first a general denial, each paragraph being addressed to the entire complaint. The action of the…