Hill v. Wright

Hill replevied certain personal property which had been seized by defendant as a tax collector, for a-balance of taxes not paid.

The item objected to was not a specific and separate tax, but a part of a single sum imposed for school taxes. The-whole tax assessed against plaintiff for various purposes was $41.42. This included school taxes amounting to $21.27. Plaintiff paid defendant $31.89, and refused to pay any more, on the ground that there had been included in the-school taxes of the town an unauthorized sum of which his proportion would be the amount withheld. Thereupon defendant seized…