Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont (Volume 20 ); Reported by the Judges of Said Court, Agreeably to A
2012 · 278 pages
2012 · 278 pages
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... SUPREME COURT RULE. Chittenden Co. Supreme Court, ) December Term, 1848. j All orders of publication, for the purpose of summoning a party to appear before the Supreme Court to answer to a libel for a divorce, shall require a publication to be made three weeks successively, the last of which shall not be less than six weeks previous to the term of the court at which the party is summoned to appear; and before the hearing upon such libel, the clerk shall certify, that such order has been complied with. This rule to take effect from and after the first day of June next. STEPHEN ROYCE, Chief Justice. MILO L. BENNETT, Assistant Hfland Hall7""' / Judges INDEX. ABATEMENT, See Book Account 1; Pleading 2-6; Process 2, 9. ACCOUNT. 1, Where a party is called upon to account for the avails of mill logs, which he has caused to be sawed, he may be allowed for all necessary expenses of sawing and securing the lumber,--but not for repairs made by him upon the saw mill, if it appear that other lumber was sawed there;--the court will not attempt to apportion the benefits resulting from the repairs. Sanborn v. Kiilredge et «/., 632. ACTION. 1. Where one of two partners employed the plaintiff in the business of the firm, but did not disclose to him the partnership, and he did not know of its exist-ence, but contracted upon the credit of the individual partner who employed him, it was held, that he might sustain an action, to recover for his services, against that partner alone. Blin v. Pierce, 25. 2. Where a debtor, for good consideration and in good faith, executed that which operated as an equitable assignment to a third person of a chose in action due to himself, leaving the legal title still in himself, and he afterwards became a bankrupt, under the act of Congress...
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