Orleans County Grammar School v. Parker
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejectment for certain lands in Derby, granted for the support of a county grammar school. • The charter of the Orleans County Grammar School, and the several acts extending and enlarging the same, and the act of 1836, granting certain lands to Craftsbury Academy, were put into the case.
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Ejectment for certain lands in Derby, granted for the support of a county grammar school. • The charter of the Orleans County Grammar School, and the several acts extending and enlarging the same, and the act of 1836, granting certain lands to Craftsbury Academy, were put into the case. The possession of the defendant was admitted, and that he sealed a lease to the plaintiffs, the 23d day of February, 1847, which lease, was also put into the case; that defendant had paid the rents, as endorsed on said lease, and no other. It also appeared, that the plaintiffs regularly organized said school…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bennett, J.
This is an action of ejectment, to recover what is called a school lot, situated in the town of Derby, in the county of Orleans.
It seems, that in February, 1847, the Orleans County Grammar School gave this defendant, a durable lease, (that is, as long as wood grows and water flows,) of this Jot, upon the payment of an annual rent, on the first day of January in each successive year, the first payment to be made the first of January, 1848. The lease also provides, that in case there shall be a failure to pay the rent for the space of sixty…
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