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- Title: Anna Gross v. Benjamin Gates
- Author : Supreme Court of Vermont
- Release Date : January 05, 1937
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the auditor of accounts forthwith to issue his warrant in favor of the petitioner in compliance with No. 246 of the Acts of 1937, which provides as follows: "The auditor of accounts is hereby directed to issue his warrant for the sum of three thousand dollars in favor of Anna Gross of Richford, widow of Otis J. Gross, late of said Richford, who was murdered September 24, 1934, while acting in the capacity of a deputy sheriff, by a person then under arrest and in his custody. Said money is to be paid to compensate said Anna Gross for the loss of her husbands earnings, burial expenses, and to assist in her support and the support of a minor child." The petition sets forth the facts in substantial agreement with those recited in the act, and in addition shows that said Otis J. Gross was then and long had been a deputy sheriff of outstanding and conspicuous ability, trustworthiness and character; that on said date he received a civil writ issued out of the Franklin municipal court, which contained a capias directing and commanding him to apprehend the body of one Michael Pope, the defendant in said writ, and him safely keep so as to have him in court to answer to the complaint of the plaintiff therein; and that while lawfully engaged in making service of said writ and attempting to apprehend the body of the said Pope, he was shot to death by him.