Wilson v. Marsh
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case. — The declaration set forth that the defendants were listers of the town of Bethel for the year 1857, and that as such listers they illegally set certain parcels of land to the plaintiff as the owner or possessor, and thereby compelled him to pay taxes thereon. Plea, not guilty, and trial by jury, at the December term, 1860, Barrltt J., presiding.
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Case. — The declaration set forth that the defendants were listers of the town of Bethel for the year 1857, and that as such listers they illegally set certain parcels of land to the plaintiff as the owner or possessor, and thereby compelled him to pay taxes thereon. Plea, not guilty, and trial by jury, at the December term, 1860, Barrltt J., presiding. The plaintiff claimed to recover of the defendants for taxes paid by him as an inhabitant of the town of Bethel upon the list of 1857, upon the following pieces of real estate which were set, in the list of that year by the defendants as…
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, J.
The plaintiff claims to recover of the defendants in an action on the case, upon the ground that as listers in the town of Bethel, for the year' 1857, the defendants wrongfully set to the plaintiff in his list certain parcels of land for which he was *359not liable to be listed, whereby he was wrongfully subjected to taxation on the same.
lie proves that the defendants set the parcels of land in his list for that year upon which taxes were assessed against, and paid by him. The court upon these facts and other facts set forth in the bill of exceptions, pro forma, directed a verdict for the…
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