State v. Inhabitants of Brookfield
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an indictment for not making and opening a newly laid road through said town. The papers presented to the Court were too voluminous to admit of publication. The points of arjy considerable importance are selected, and the arguments upon those points presented. There was a jury trial in the county court, and exceptions allowed. The verdict was against the town.
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This was an indictment for not making and opening a newly laid road through said town. The papers presented to the Court were too voluminous to admit of publication. The points of arjy considerable importance are selected, and the arguments upon those points presented. There was a jury trial in the county court, and exceptions allowed. The verdict was against the town. The exceptions show, that the defendants offered to prove, that it was absolutely and physically impossible to make the road where it was laid. This was objected to and rejected. The defendants then filed a motion in arrest,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was pronounced by
Hutchinson, J.
This indictment complains of the defendants for not making and opening a road, laid through said town'by a committee heretofore appointed by the Supreme Court, when in session in the county of Washington. It is now objected in arrest, that the term of the court, when this road was established, is not sufficiently described. The description is, at the term, &c. begun and holden at Montpelier, in August, 1825. This the Court consider well enough. 1, It is a true description. 2. It truly describes the term as fixed by the statute ; and 3.…
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