Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-04-20
POWELL. WOODBURY. CASE ON
Suit Growing Out of Burning Of
Hotel Burlington.
Plaintiff Claims That Property Dcpre-
ciatcd In Value on Account OF
Chanccry Proceedings. which
Were Later discontinued.

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Noyyor Whom tbc court osl,cd IL tho
coso wore ready for trial NJ, Bullard
soid the n1ointir asked ioovo Ia flo
Ian amendment TO the ulaintirf.s de-
claration Ucgal statement of his claim
for damagcs) by adding another count
! thereto Defendants counsel objected
/ though they said the COPY had but
lust boon handed to them. Mr. Red
/ mond told the court that in the opinion
/ OF himself ana his associate the dccla
ration without the amendment might
! subject the case to motion in arrest
| Of Judgment IT plaintiff obtained
verdict Court gave counsel half an
| hour to read over the proposed addi-
! ton TO tho declaration; at the oNplra-
tloh OF that 'li"e MI brown Sald t"eE
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ton. 1tor,.v pottcn Nilieton. George
y pond purlirpton. y Stearns.
1Iircshuro. C,oorpo !, Tutt1o Burlint.-
ton Roth sides exercised five chal-
1onros each. and several Jurors we're
excused because they had expressed
cpinions on the merits of the contro-
ycrsy. when the Jury was declared
Iacceptable. 1t was made up OF the fol-
lowing jurors
w. l.. Hicknel. Jnderhill; Frank
Blakely. Colchester; II. NJ Brown.
Jericho; X. W. German, Richmond; NJ
f. Haselton Westtord; Osmon :. Ken
Yon, Huntington; W. J. Lapres"' smell
burne; Jed G. Phelps. Milton; w. j.
Parker, Shelburne; ~ IS 0'earhS'
lIinesburg; W. T.. Ferguson winston
ana W. H. IuPper' south D"rIl'F 'o"'
he last TWO named were Called DIS
talrsmeh'
MR.. POWEILS STATEMENT
AS SUN as '''o 'Ni' wa"
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opening S'atc'.'e"' VI ""'t ne 80
Weie, iie was nv
MI brown as S'a'i"e '''''
"ouIu nut pc "u'i''Ss""'e as
ana seNerai eN0op'io"S "e'' '.o'oN '0i
lho uelehua''S u"i'Hb lHo W. Va
'he S'a'e''eA'' J." 'i'e'' "' y" ca >
Statement was Una 'i Yer 'ie H'e' " "''''
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nronertv. and holding a ault-claln deed
of it from Delaney to him as trustee
had an idea of rebuilding the hotel
= which was to rise phoenix like etc.
: This was one of the the matters eN-
cepted to as detail having no bearing
} on any issue in the case. Further, that
he learned that Delaney had given K
e T.. Brown an option on tho property
that he went to see Mr.. Brown and tried
} to learn for whom Brown was getting
the option. was told the parties were
not in town, but at the automobile
show in Boston; a few days lat.