The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-01
COMMISSIONERS MAKE RULES,
Railroad Tribunal Specifies Mode OF Pro
cedure for Compliments.

| The state board of railroad commission
ers has issued a book containing the Iules
OF practice that they have adopted. III
| the introduction OF this booklet the com
miSsioners state that the forms, pledulhsS
and procedure before the board should
/ be rather informal and so as to give lul
| liberty OF approach, untrammeled by any
sci rules. The rules adopted are Tor
cases in which the law provides thal
proceedings shall be by petition and an
] swer. z,
The rules, ton in number are as fol
| lows:
Petitions or complaints brought "a, the
/ hoard of railroad commissioners shall re-
| cite in the Introductory part the names
/ places OF residence compianants ana Ge'
! PENDANTS, and shall be signed by the
compliments.
/ Tie petition shall contain a clear and
! explicit statement OF the ground OF com
plant. avoiding proliXity and repetition;
/ If the complaint relates to railroad
/ crossing bridge depot or other structure,
such crossing or structure shall be De
scribed with such certainty that 1t may
be readily identified.
/ The PRAYER of the bill shall ask foi
the specific relief to which the complain
ants think they are entitled. zee
/ When any such petition Is filled, the
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/ to be attached thereto, requiring the de,
| PENDANT to appear and answer, and Will
return the petition and the subpoena Tor
service as the law requires.
The defendant shall enter its appear
ance and file its answer on the day on
which il is required to appear and an
swer. and of which it shall have had due
notice otherwise the bill will be taken
as confessed,
No formal demurrer, or formal plea,
except plea to the jurisdiction Of the
commission. shall be filed: but the de-
! PENDANT may insist in its answer on any
special matter that goes to the merits OF
/ the bill, and have the same benefit there
of as if it had specially pleaded the same
or demurred to the bill.
| All answers shall be verified by the
oath of some officer, division superintend-
ent, or other superior employee OF the
defendant who has special charge OF the
subject matter of the complaint, regard
less of whether an answer under oath Is
waived by the petition. The oath shall
be in substance that the afant has read
| the answer, or heard it read, and knows
/ the contents theerof, and that the same
/ is true of his own knowledge, except the
matters stated to be on his information
and belief, and that as to those matters
/ he believes them to be true. The oath
may be administered by any person au-
| thorized by the laws of the state to ad-
minister oaths; and if taken out Of the
state where taken. The certificate of the
magistrate shall state the form of the
oath taken.
The defendant shall answer as fully, di-
rectly and particularly to every material
allegation of the bill as if it had been
particularly Intercepted in respect there
| to.
Issue will be treated as joined on an
answer as soon as it is filed, where it
denies any material allegation of the pc
tition, or relies on new matter in de-
fence or justification.
At the time of filling an answer
pleading, or amendment, the party fill
ing the same shall furnish one Of the adj
verse parties or their attorney a copy
thereof, per personal delivery or by mail
postage prepaid.
The rules bear the signatures of John
w. Redmond. Newport Eli H. Porter,
Wilmington, and S. HOLSTER jackson,
Barre.