Langdon v. Poor
Supreme Court of Vermont
Ejectment for land in Middlesex. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury. On trial the plaintiff, in support of his title, offered in evidence the record of the proceedings under the statute of November 9,1826, assessing a tax of two cents on each acre of land in Middlesex, for the purpose of making and repairing roads and building bridges in said town.
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Ejectment for land in Middlesex. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury. On trial the plaintiff, in support of his title, offered in evidence the record of the proceedings under the statute of November 9,1826, assessing a tax of two cents on each acre of land in Middlesex, for the purpose of making and repairing roads and building bridges in said town. From the record offered it appeared, that the collector’s advertisement was dated June 7,1828, and that the certificate of his oath and his warrant were dated June 10, 1828. It also appeared from the record, that the collector’s…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Hall, J.
In order to make a good title to land in this state, under a sale for taxes, great strictness has always been required in the observance of statute; requirements. It has sometimes been said,r that a literal compliance with the statute provisions, by all the officers connected with the proceedings, is a condition precedent to the j passing of any title. Perhaps the term literal, in its confined sense, 1 is rather too strong. A clear and strict compliance has always / ■ been held indispensable, even in regard to matters, which, but fort the…
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