Case Name: Joseph Durkee v. Paul Marshall
Court: Vermont Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Vermont
Decision Date: 1842-01
Citations: 14 Vt. 559
Docket Number: 
Parties: Joseph Durkee v. Paul Marshall.
Judges: 
Reporter: Vermont Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 559–559

Head Matter:
Joseph Durkee v. Paul Marshall.
In petitions for new trials of actions tried in the county court, it is not necessary that the petitioner should give security for costs to the adverse party, on issuing the citation, as is required on the issuing of writs of summons.
On a petition for a new trial, this court will not proceed to the hearing upon the merits until furnished with a properly authenticated copy of the minutes of the judge who tried the case in the county court, or evidence showing that such copy has been applied for and could not be obtained, in which case, only, will the court dispense with such copy and admit the affidavits of the attorneys, as to what passed at the trial.
This was a petition for a new trial in a cause tried in the county court. The petitionee pleaded in abatement the want of a recognizance for costs entered by the petitioner at the time of issuing the óitation.

Opinion:
By the Court.
There is no statute requiring such recognizance to be entered; and no such practice has ever obtained. The tenth section of the thirty-third chapter of the Revised Statutes has reference only to that class of petitions named in the ninth section. We cannot consider the citation in this case a writ of summons within the terms of the fifth section of the twenty-eighth chapter of the Revised Statutes. The plea in abatement, therefore, must be overruled.
The court held also in this case, that they could not proceed to the hearing of the case upon its merits, unless furnished with a properly authenticated copy of the minutes of the judge who tried the case in the county court, or evidence showing that such copy had been applied for and could not be obtained, in which case only would the court dispense with the copy of the minutes, and take the affidavit of the attorneys as to what passed at the trial.