County of Addison v. Blackmer

This bill in chancery is brought to compel the defendants to discontinue the use of and remove their gas tanks and pumps now installed in close proximity to the south side of the county courthouse in Middlebury. The facts were found by tbe chancellor, and a decree was rendered for the defendants. The plaintiff appealed.

Gamalial Painter formerly owned all the land involved in the controversy. On January 7, 1816, he conveyed to the county of Addison a part of such land, on which a courthouse had already been built. In that deed, he described the granted premises as follows: “Being all the land…