Whitford, Bartlett & Co. v. Clarke

This is an action for the recovery of a tax against plaintiffs assessed on personal property by the assessors of the City of Providence for the year 1905, said tax amounting to $990 and claimed by the plaintiffs tO' have been paid under protest and is before this court upon the plaintiffs ’ exceptions to the direction of a verdict for the defendant in the Superior Court.

It is conceded that the tax in question was illegally assessed under the decision of this court in Matteson v. Warwick & Coventry Water Co., 28 R. I. 570, in that the time prescribed by said assessors for the making of returns…