Houghton v. Hall
Supreme Court of Vermont
Beplevin for a wagon. Trial by the court, September term, 1874. The defendant avowed the taking as highway surveyor of district No. 7 in Bakersfield, under a rate-bill and warrant for the collection of a highway tax assessed on the grand list of 1873, as made and returned by the listers, and not as altered by the equalizing committee of the legislature at the session of 1870, by adding 30 per cent.
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Beplevin for a wagon. Trial by the court, September term, 1874. The defendant avowed the taking as highway surveyor of district No. 7 in Bakersfield, under a rate-bill and warrant for the collection of a highway tax assessed on the grand list of 1873, as made and returned by the listers, and not as altered by the equalizing committee of the legislature at the session of 1870, by adding 30 per cent. The appraisal of the real estate in said town in 1870, was never sworn to by the listers; and there was no subsequent appraisal thereof. The court rendered judgment for the defendant for one cent…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wheeler, J.
It was the duty of the listers of the town of Bakersfield in the year 1870, to make a quinquennial appraisal of all the real estate there, at its fair cash value, and to make a list thereof; Gen. Sts. 519, § 20 ; and to attach to the list, a certificate signed by them or a majority of them, verified by oath, setting forth that they had set down all the real estate situate in that town, according to the best of their information, and had estimated the value of such real estate at such sums as they would appraise the same in payment of a just…
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