Town of Strafford v. Town of Sharon
Supreme Court of Vermont
This is a petition of the town of Strafford against the town of Sharon, returnable to the January Term of the Supreme Court for the County of Windsor, 1888. The petition represented that at the May Term of said Court, 1883, the town of Sharon had presented a petition against the town qf Strafford, praying that the said town of Strafford might be required to contribute its just proportion towards the rebuilding and maintenance of the bridge across the White River in said…
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This is a petition of the town of Strafford against the town of Sharon, returnable to the January Term of the Supreme Court for the County of Windsor, 1888. The petition represented that at the May Term of said Court, 1883, the town of Sharon had presented a petition against the town qf Strafford, praying that the said town of Strafford might be required to contribute its just proportion towards the rebuilding and maintenance of the bridge across the White River in said Sharon, and that such proceedings were had in the premises that at the January Term of said Court, 1885, it was ordered that…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Royce, Ch. J.
This was a petition brought to this court to' vacate an order made by the Supreme court in Windsor county in 1885, assessing the town of Strafford to defray orie-sixth part of the expense of building and maintaining a bridge in the town of Sharon, across White River.
The petitioner bases its claim upon the fact that the statute under which the order was made has since been repealed, and that the Legislature has provided a different remedy for towns that are found to be unreasonably burdened by the obligation to build and maintain bridges…
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