Maynard v. Town of Westfield
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence. Plea, tbe general issue. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1913, Orleans County, Stanton, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
This plaintiff seeks damages for injuries to his horse alleged to have resulted from the lack of a railing on a culvert in a highway in the defendant town. This culvert was a part of a state road built in the fall of 1909, and was a part of the main highway from Westfield to Lowell. The road and the culvert were in perfect condition, except that the latter had no railing or guard on its west end.
Just at nightfall, the defendant was driving southerly over this highway in a buggy, leading a horse behind. As he approached the culvert, he found in the road just beyond it a stalled automobile.…
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