Sumner v. Wentworth

Decided January 15, 1801

Supreme Court of Vermont · decided 1801-01-15

COVENANT broken. Attach Martha Went-worth, of Portsmouth, County of Rockingham and State of New-PIamp shire, to answer unto Benjamin Sumner, of Clairmont, in the County of Cheshire ' . .

Decided 1801-01-15

Judgment of Court.

¶1New trial not granted. Motion dismissed with costs.

¶2And now, on review, January term, A. D. 1801, the cause went again to the Jury. Exception was again taken to the deed’s being read in evidence. Further argument was heard, and the Court finally *59decided, that the deed could not be read to the Jury-in support of the plaintiff’s declaration.

Nathaniel Chipman, Darius Chipman, Daniel Chipman, Amos Marsh, and T. Squires, for plaintiff.S. Hitchcock, S. Miller, and C. Smith, for defendant.

¶3Plaintiff nonsuited.