Brock v. Bruce
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit, under the statute, to recover a school tax. Plea, general issue, trial by jury, June Term, 1884, Caledonia County, Ross, J., presiding. Verdict ordered for the defendant. The plaintiff offered to prove by Stoddard, a witness referred to in the opinion, that, as attorney for the plaintiff and just before he brought this suit, he saw Bruce and told him that.he had better pay this tax; that Bruce refused to pay it and said he never would.
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Assumpsit, under the statute, to recover a school tax. Plea, general issue, trial by jury, June Term, 1884, Caledonia County, Ross, J., presiding. Verdict ordered for the defendant. The plaintiff offered to prove by Stoddard, a witness referred to in the opinion, that, as attorney for the plaintiff and just before he brought this suit, he saw Bruce and told him that.he had better pay this tax; that Bruce refused to pay it and said he never would. As to the notice, the plaintiff testified that he called upon Bruce for the tax two or three times, showed him the tax, and that Bruce refused to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rowell, J.
The oath attached to the list of 1881 is in form like that prescribed by sec. 35, c. 83, Gen. Sts., to be used in the years of the general appraisal of real estate.
No. 78 of the Statutes of 1880, provided that real estate should be appraised and set in the list in 1881 “ai its true value in money ” on the first day of April in that year, and that all taxable property should be appraised by the listers *266at such sums as they would, appraise the same in payment of a just debt due from a solvent debtor, “ having regard to the current value of such…
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- Wilson v. WheelerSupreme Court of Vermont · 1882
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