Town of Brookline v. Town of Westminster
Supreme Court of Vermont
This action was brought up from the county court upon the following bill of exceptions : “ This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the town of Brookline, to recover of the defendant town the expense of erecting a certain bridge across West river, on the road from Newfane Court house to the former residence of one Ormsbee,in Brookline. The defendants pleaded the general issue, and the declaration and pleadings are referred to as'part of the case.
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This action was brought up from the county court upon the following bill of exceptions : “ This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the town of Brookline, to recover of the defendant town the expense of erecting a certain bridge across West river, on the road from Newfane Court house to the former residence of one Ormsbee,in Brookline. The defendants pleaded the general issue, and the declaration and pleadings are referred to as'part of the case. The plaintiffs offered in evidence, to support the issue on their part, attested copies of the records and proceedings of Windham county court,…
1Opinion of the Court
Hutchinson, C. J.,
pronounced the opinion of the Court, as follows: — Thi.s is an action of assumpsit, brought to recover four twentieths of the monies, expended by the town of Brookline, in erecting a bridge across West-River, between Brookline and New-Fane. The plaintifls ' set forth in their declaration, the particulars of their proceedings before the county court, which, they contend, entitled them to recover. They declare, that the inhabitants of said town of Brookline had petitioned the county court, by petition in writing, &c., and sta'ting therein, that there was a public road leading…
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