Welles v. Battelle
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Trespass for taking and carrying away a quantity of iron, the property of the plaintiffs. The parties, October term, 1811, agreed to submit to the determination of the Court the following case: — The defendants justify as assessors for the district of Dover for the year 1808, and the plaintiffs compose a company known by the name of The Boston Iron and Nail Factory Company.
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Trespass for taking and carrying away a quantity of iron, the property of the plaintiffs. The parties, October term, 1811, agreed to submit to the determination of the Court the following case: — The defendants justify as assessors for the district of Dover for the year 1808, and the plaintiffs compose a company known by the name of The Boston Iron and Nail Factory Company. Ruggles Whiting, who is one of the plaintiffs, is their known agent, and they are proprietors of, and liable to be taxed as non-residents, for the real estate set to “ Ruggles Whiting, agent for the Boston Iron and Nail…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of tire Court was delivered by
Parker, C. J.
This case comes up upon an agreed state of facts, referring to the Court the question whether the defendants are liable in this action as trespassers, they having issued a warrant of distress, upon which the property of the plaintiffs was taken and sold for the payment of taxes for the year l808.
The defendants were duly chosen and legally qualified to act as assessors for the district of Dover in the county of Norfolk, for the year 1808. And they duly and legally assessed the taxes authorized for that year upon real estate within the…
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