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68 Vt. 104

Reynolds v. Chynoweth

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided June 15, 1895

Supreme Court of Vermont · decided 1895-06-15

Assumpsit. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June term, 1895, Orange county, Rowell, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts- It appeared that in May, 1894, the defendant took the mowing and tillage land upon the plaintiff’s farm to carry-on upon shares and that he had occupied the same for the season under that arrangement.

Relies on Briggs v. Mason · Barney v. Bliss · Mason v. Gray

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Decided 1895-06-15

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Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1941

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TAFT, J.

¶1By pleading to the new count the defendant waived his right to move to dismiss it upon the ground that it was for a new cause of action. Seymour v. Brainard, 66 Vt. 320.

¶2The court ruled it was competent to introduce any testimony pertinent to the issue joined. That this ruling was correct see Barney v. Bliss, 2 Aik. 60; Wheelock v. Wheelock, 5 Vt. 433 ; Allen v. Park hurst, 10 Vt. 557 ; Onion v. Fullerton, 17 Vt. 359; Briggs v. Mason, 31 Vt. 433; Carppenier v. Welch, 40 Vt. 251,

¶3A good consideration is alleged in the special count. The bare relation of landlord and tenant was a sufficient consideration for the promises laid. Powley v. Walker, 5 Term 373.

¶4The count has all the elements of a declaration in contract. An allegation of the consideration, the promises, a breach, and the resulting damages. The tenancy was of a letting upon shares and that the plaintiff can maintain assumpsit was decided in Lapoint v. Scott, 36 Vt. 309, which in its facts is analogous to the case at bar.

¶5The plaintiff’s husband was her agent in making the lease of the land and in the general management, control and oversight of it. All the matters to which he testified, under objection, had reference to the very matters within the scope *109of his agency. No question is now made as to the testimony of the witness, Rowell.

¶6The foregoing holdings cover all the questions raised under the motions, to order a verdict, to set it aside, and in .arrest, and all made by the defendant’s brief.

¶7Judgment affirmed.

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