City of Hartford v. Champion
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover taxes claimed to be due to the plaintiff city from the defendant; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the jury before F. B. Sail, J. Verdict fbr the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for error in the rulings and charge of the judge and in the omission to charge as requested. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
The defendant is an elderly lady of large wealth and never married. She had lived in the city-of Hartford quite a number of years prior to 1882 with an only brother, an old man, a bachelor, in feeble health, and who appears to have been her only near relative living. During these years she paid taxes in Hartford. In the year 1882 she did not return any list of her taxable property to the assessors, and thereupon the assessors filled out a list for her, putting therein all the property they had reason to believe was owned by her liable to taxation at its actual valuation, and adding thereto…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Thayer v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
- Smith v. David B. Crockett Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1912
- Vincent v. EavesCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1858
- Town of Salem v. Town of LymeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1860
- Town of Hartford v. ChampionSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1886
3Cited by28 opinions
- Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. WrightSupreme Court of Georgia · 1906
- Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Virginia · 1895
- McDonald v. Hartford Trust Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
- Board of Water Commissioners v. RobbinsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1910
- Shilkret v. HelveringCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1943
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