Adams v. Crowell
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action of trespass and trover. Pleas, tbe general issue, and justification by Crowell as collector of a school district. The case was submitted on the school district records and an agreed statement of facts, which are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
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This was an action of trespass and trover. Pleas, tbe general issue, and justification by Crowell as collector of a school district. The case was submitted on the school district records and an agreed statement of facts, which are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. It appeared that the legal voters of the district, except the plaintiff, at the school meeting referred to in the opinion, understood that they had done, at said meeting, all that was necessary to do to have and maintain a school for four months of the year then ensuing, in summer and fall, and to pay the expense of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kellogg, J.
This is an action for taking and leading away a horse belonging to the plaintiff, with a count in trover for the same property, joined agreeably to the provisions of the statute. Gen. Stat., p. 290, § 14. The defendants, by their plea, justified the alleged .taking and conversion of the property under and by virtue of a rate bill of a tax on the list of the polls and ratable estate of the inhabitants of school district No. 10, in Barnard, for the year 1865, with a warrant annexed thereto for the collection of the same ; the plaintiff being…
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