[1] The Ploofs were an indigent French Canadian family who lived and worked on a boat that traveled Lake Champlain.
He reasoned that, in general, "necessity...will justify entries upon land and interference with personal property that would otherwise have been trespasses.
[3]" Munson emphasized that necessity applies with extra force when human life is at stake.
[3] Finally, the Court concluded that Putnam could be held liable for his servant's actions under respondeat superior.
Putnam brought two more appeals to the Vermont Supreme Court before Ploof could collect the judgment.