Bates v. Town of Sharon
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for damage sustained by 'reason of the insufficiency of a highway. Pica, the general issue, and trial by jury, December. term, 1871, Barrett, J., presiding.
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Case for damage sustained by 'reason of the insufficiency of a highway. Pica, the general issue, and trial by jury, December. term, 1871, Barrett, J., presiding. The plaintiff introduced evidence tending to prove, that on the afternoon of the first day of April, 1870, he was passing through the town of Sharon, along the highway on the north side of White River, driving a span of heavy team horses, which he had purchased the day before in Barre, and that his off horse got into some gullies in the highway, caused by the water running across the highway, and thereby received an injury which…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Peck, J.
The question put to .Noyes by the plaintiff’s counsel, whether the gullies had the appearance of having been washed out recently or not, and his reply, that he should think they had been there, from the appearance, for several days, and a similar answer from the plaintiff to a like question, were proper. The general rule is, that the opinions of witnesses, except upon questions of art, science, and skill, are not admissible. But the rule has its exceptions. Where the facts are of such a character as to be incapable of being. presented with…
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