Town of Grand Isle v. Towns of Milton & Colchester
Supreme Court of Vermont
Petition for relief from liability to assessment in respect to a highway and bridge. Trial by court at the September term, 1895, Chittenden county, Tart, J., presiding. Judgment that the assessment be vacated. The defendants except. S. 8, No. 18, Acts 1894, provides that the act shall not apply to pending causes. This suit was then pending, and the subsequent repeal of s. 8 could not give any rights under No. 18 in this matter.
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Petition for relief from liability to assessment in respect to a highway and bridge. Trial by court at the September term, 1895, Chittenden county, Tart, J., presiding. Judgment that the assessment be vacated. The defendants except. S. 8, No. 18, Acts 1894, provides that the act shall not apply to pending causes. This suit was then pending, and the subsequent repeal of s. 8 could not give any rights under No. 18 in this matter. Tunbridge v. Royalton, 58 Vt. 212; V. S., ss. 28, 29; Pratt v. Jones, 25 Vt. 303. The petitioner is entitled to relief under s. 6, No. 18, Acts 1894. Tunbridge v.…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
This is a petition by the town of Grand Isle to be relieved from liability to assessment for the expense of maintaining and repairing a highway, including a bridge, wholly within the defendant towns of Milton and Colchester. This liability was imposed by a judgment of the Chittenden county court rendered at its April term, A. D. 1886, pursuant to the prayer of a petition preferred at its September term, A. D. 1882. That petition was brought under R. L., ss. 2,969, 2,975, 2,976 and 2,977, force at the time of bringing the petition, which provided for the laying out, building and maintaining a…
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