White v. Town of Portland
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the doings of the assessors and hoard of relief of the defendant town, taken to the Superior Court in Middlesex County and tried to the court, Robinson, J., upon the defendant’s demurrer to the plaintiffs’ reasons of appeal; the court sustained the demurrer and rendered judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiffs appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, J.
This is an application for relief, under § 3860 of the General Statutes, from the doings of the board of relief of the town of Portland. The town demurred to the application, the Superior Court sustained the demurrer and dismissed the case, and from that judgment the plaintiffs took the present appeal.
*274■ From the facts alleged in. the application, which are in effect admitted by the demurrer, it appears that the tax assessment in question was made in 1893 upon certain real estate, which the assessors of Portland set in the list of the “ estate of Eliza T. White ”; that she died intestate in…
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