Chandler v. Caswell
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejectment to recover lot No. 10 in the 11th range, and lot No. 10 in the 12th range, of lands in the town of Victory. The plaintiff claimed title to lot No. 10 in the 11th range by virtue of a deed from Isaac Denison, collector of a tax of three cents upon each acre of land in said town, granted by the legislature of this state at their October session, 1836, and, in support of his title, offered in evidence a bond, in the penal sum of $1250, purporting to have been signed…
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Ejectment to recover lot No. 10 in the 11th range, and lot No. 10 in the 12th range, of lands in the town of Victory. The plaintiff claimed title to lot No. 10 in the 11th range by virtue of a deed from Isaac Denison, collector of a tax of three cents upon each acre of land in said town, granted by the legislature of this state at their October session, 1836, and, in support of his title, offered in evidence a bond, in the penal sum of $1250, purporting to have been signed by said Denison as principal, and Lucius Deni-son as surety, and witnessed by G. W. Denison and Anson Coe, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Williams, Ch. J.
The plaintiff claimed title to the premises in question by virtue of two vendue deeds, and, in order to show that the collectors have complied with the directions of the statute, which requires a collector to give bonds, before he enters upon the duties of his office, to the committee appointed to superintend the expenditure of the tax, the bonds were produced. The defendant required that the subscribing witnesses should be produced. The court held that the evidence of one of the committee, to whom the bond was given, was sufficient.…
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