Dyer v. Osborne

This is an action on the case to recover a tax of §280.00 assessed on the defendant in the town of Tiverton in the year 1874. The defendant pleads in bar of the action, that in compliance with a notice given by the assessors as prescribed by the statute, Gen. Stat. R. I. cap. 40, § 6, he rendered an account on oath as required by § 7 of that chapter, and his tax was duly assessed by the assessors upon the ratable property and estate in said account mentioned, and was by him promptly paid to the collector of taxes; and he further avers and pleads, “ the taxes in the plaintiff’s declar-ation…