W. S. Quinby Co. v. Sheffield
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover moneys’paid as taxes upon land bought by the plaintiff’s assignor under a written agreement between it and the defendants, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Williams, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff.
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Action to recover moneys’paid as taxes upon land bought by the plaintiff’s assignor under a written agreement between it and the defendants, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Williams, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff. The plaintiff, The W. S. Quinby Company, a corporation doing business in Boston, Massachusetts, and which on March 5th, 1909, became the owner of two certain parcels of land situated in New Haven, seeks by this action to recover of the defendants, who are residents of Cleveland, Ohio, and who for…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, C. J.
It is alleged among the reasons of appeal that the trial court erred in reaching, from the facts found, the following conclusions stated in the finding, and which form the basis of its judgment in favor of the defendants:—
“1. That under the terms of the agreement between the defendants and said Fields Company of February 13, 1909, and under the terms and provisions of the deed, Exhibit 1, it became and was the duty of said Fields Company to pay all of said taxes in question.
“2. That said Fields Company paid said sum of $61,717.49, and the defendants received and retained the same, as a part…
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- Raymond v. NashSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1889
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