Brown v. Dinsmoor
Superior Court of New Hampshire
This was an action on the caso. The plaintiff alleged in his declaration, that, a certain farm in Chester, being in the possession and occupation of Couch, as tenant thereof to the said Brown, and the reversion thereof being in the said Brown, the said Dinsmoor maintained a dam across a certain brook, by which said farm was overflown, from the 22d August, 1817, to 22d August, 1S23, and the trees of the plaintiff killed, and part of the farm made spongy and rotten ; and that…
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This was an action on the caso. The plaintiff alleged in his declaration, that, a certain farm in Chester, being in the possession and occupation of Couch, as tenant thereof to the said Brown, and the reversion thereof being in the said Brown, the said Dinsmoor maintained a dam across a certain brook, by which said farm was overflown, from the 22d August, 1817, to 22d August, 1S23, and the trees of the plaintiff killed, and part of the farm made spongy and rotten ; and that the defendant entered upon said farmland cut three thousand small trees ; by reason of which the said Brown was injured…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, C. J.
One question in this case depends upon the construction of the statute, entitled “ an act for taxing the lands and buildings of nonresidents,” which enacts, that “ the selectmen, “ &e., shall make out in writing under their hands, and deliv- “ er the same to the several collectors, on or before the 30th “ May, annually, a list of all such assessments, and insert “ therein the name of the owner, if known, otherwise the “name of the original proprietor, and the number of acres “ taxed, and the number of the lot and range ; and the proportion of each assessment to each lot, or tract, of land “…
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