Lord v. Town of Litchfield
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit for money paid, to recover the amount of certain taxes paid under compulsion and claimed to have been illegally laid. The Superior Court found the following facts.
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Assumpsit for money paid, to recover the amount of certain taxes paid under compulsion and claimed to have been illegally laid. The Superior Court found the following facts. The original deed from a committee of the towns of Hartford, Windsor, and certain inhabitants of Farmington, dated April 27, 1719, granted to the first settlers of the town of Litchfield, among other things, “ three home lots with the divisions of land to be laid out thereunto, and the whole of said three lots to be three-sixtieth parts of the whole plantation, to be and remain for the uses following, and no other use and…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The statute of 1859 provides that “ whenever any ecclesiastical society, or any public or charitable institution, shall have leased or otherwise conveyed any real estáte, from which said society or institution does not receive an annu'al income''or rent, or where such conveyance is intended to be a perpetual conveyance, such estate shall not be exempt from taxation.” The court below has found that neither the town of Litchfield, nor the ecclesiastical society; has ever received any annual income or rent from the property here in question. The case then is brought within the language of the…
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