Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-10
Lam0iIle County C0nrt.


Hon. II II. Powers, Presiding Judge.
Hon HON. + E T. Il f saAT4ucK, Assistant Judges.
w. II H. KENFrELp, CLERK.
" T. McCurCHINs States Attorney
JONAS STEVENS, Sheriff.
JOHN II. MMMs, Stenogrdpher.
The December term Of the Iamoe county
court commenced on Tuesday Of last week. There
was quite large attendance Of the members Of
the bar, and several members from other counties
were present After prayer by Rev Mr. Bush
nell, court was opened by the sheriff's proclama-
ton. The following men comprise the grand
and petit jurors:
Grand Jurors-C. B. Webster, Belvidere; s.
Y. Brewster and Thomas Edwards, Cambridge
c. A. White, Eden S. N. Olmstead, Elmore
Samuel Cinnamon and A. Parker Smalley, Hyde
park; d. $. Waterman and H. A. Waterman,
johnson; S. Gle, Orlo Cady and Frank Kenfied
Morristown; william r. Cheney, c. d. Morrison
and A. H. slayton, Stowe; Seth Clark Water
Morristown, served as talsman to fill vacancy Of
Earl Guyer, Wocott, excused by the court
Petit Jurors-MerrttP Potter, Bevldere; Arthur
Walker, Earl Prior N A. Hawley and D. c. Girls
void, Cambridge; j. d. Kelley and G. J. Warren,
Eden; George Gray and B. +. Morse, Elmore; J.
c. Croker, l.. A. Teuney, Edwin Billiard and
George W. DEMO, Hydepark Fred Clark, II. A.
MIDGET, Frank Atwell and Clarence Spafford,
johnson; Henry Fisher, S. X. Waterman Hiram
Dodge, W. S. Gilbert and George Emore Morris
town; o. f. Gerry, A. Peterson, b. o. Shaw, X.
s. Warren and Orlo Town, Stowe; O. NJ. Wells,
and Orlin p Hayes watervie; J. W. Scott, H.
II. Pike and C. c. Stevens, wolcott
II. A. Waterman was appointed foreman of the
grand jury, and Orlo Cady clerk.
After a brief charge to each body the docket
was called, the first case coming to trial being
that of Lewis J. White and wife rs. Town Of
Stowe. The plaintiff claimed damages for an
injury she sustained by falling into hole in
defective culyert on a road In Stowe which 1t was
the duty of the town to keep in good repair The
defence was, first, that plaintiff was not in that
part Of the road intended for public travel, and
secondly, that her injuries arose, not from the
accident she claimed, but from one Of earlier
date, at Manchester, New Hampshire. Whatever
was the origin OF the damaged limb 1t was in a
bad condition, and the jury awarded the plain
tiff S2,233 80, which is the largest verdict that
has been found for some time for highway acct
dent in this county. The defendant takes excep-
tons, and carries the case 10 the supreme court,
on the ground Of insufficiency Of the plaintiffs
notice.
Another case in which the same town was de-
PENDANT did not come to trial. for the hopes OF
plaintiff to gain respectable verdict, as the pre-
vious plaintiff did, were cut short by lorna
ruling OF the court excluding the plaintiffs notice
to the selectmen.
In State rs. o. T. Merrill on an indictment for
forgery, the respondents counsel demurred to
the indictment on the ground that the instrument
forged was pretended discharge OF a mortgage,
having, even II genuine, no legal force to dis
charge the mortgage. The court sustained the
demurrer, and the respondent was discharged.
State Us. Albert Meacham for breaking Jail is
now on trial