Dewey v. Stratford
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Petition to the Court of Common Pleas for this county, May term, 1859, for the abatement of an unjust and illegal non-resident tax. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. referred to Osgood v. Blake, 21 N. H. 550, and Briggs’ Petition, 29 N. H. 547.
1Opinion of the CourtFowler, J.
By the first section of chapter 44 of the Revised Statutes [Comp. Laws 123], selectmen of towns are authorized, for good cause shown, to abate any tax assessed by themselves or their predecessors. By the second section of the same chapter it is provided, that if they shall neglect or refuse to abate any tax, upon application to them for that purpose, any person conceiving himself aggrieved by their decision, having first complied with the provisions contained in section 4 of chapter 41 of the Revised Statutes, may, within nine months after notice of such tax, and not afterward, apply by…
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