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Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont, 1900, Vol. 3 of 71
Unlawful Manna - The result is not affected by the fact, if it be a fact, that the members voluntarily joined the association and accepted the by-laws providing for the imposition of coercive fines, for the law sees in the membership of an association of this character both the authors and the victims of the coercive system. Unlawful Means - Moreover, it can hardly be supposed that the defendants' organization reached its present proportions without some previous use of the unlawful means referred to. Exemplary Damages - The exemplary damages found by the jury cannot be allowed, for, if ever recoverable against several defendants, they are only recoverable where all are shown to have been moved by a wanton desire to injure. Evidence. - The holding of the court upon matters of evidence is stated in the Opinion too concisely to admit of further condensation in the head note. Case. Trial by jury at the September term, 1895, Washington county, Start, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs. The defendants excepted. At the close of the testimony the defendants moved for a verdict for insufficiency of evidence. The motion was overruled. The jury were permitted to include exemplary damages in their verdict, but were required to report the amount thereof separately. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.