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16 Vt. 162

Green v. Donaldson

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided January 15, 1844

Supreme Court of Vermont · decided 1844-01-15

Trespass on the case. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury- The declaration alleged that the defendant was possessed of a quantity of cord wood, which he proposed to sell to the plaintiff at one dollar per cord.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1900

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Decided 1844-01-15

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¶1The opinion of the court was delivered by

Redfield, J.

¶2This case must be decided from what appears upon the bill of exceptions. If the testimony objected to has any legal tendency to prove the issue, in any reasonably supposable state of the testimony, as detailed in the bill of exceptions, it will be im*164possible for us to say that it was improperly received. When it is stated, as in the present case, that the plaintiff gave evidence tending'to prove the various allegations as mentioned in his declaration,” we must conclude that by this is intended all the allegations in the declaration, and to the full extent. If we understand less than this, we shall hardly know where to stop.

¶3The plaintiff, then, having given evidence to show that the wood was mostly unsound and rotten, crooked, &c., the defendant offered testimony to show that the timber standing on the land from which this was cut, “ was a good, fair lot of timber.” How, then, is it possible to say that such timber, when cut, should have made wood mostly unsound and rotten, and crooked, .unless by some artificial process? Judgment affirmed,

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