Beekman v. . Bigham
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from tlie general term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth, district, where a nonsuit, granted on the trial, had been affirmed, and a motion for a new trial denied. This was an action of trespass, by Aletta Beekman and others, against Andrew Bigham, the defendant, for cutting and carrying away certain trees and timber from a lot of wild land in Saratoga county, to which the plaintiffs claimed title in fee.
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Appeal from tlie general term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth, district, where a nonsuit, granted on the trial, had been affirmed, and a motion for a new trial denied. This was an action of trespass, by Aletta Beekman and others, against Andrew Bigham, the defendant, for cutting and carrying away certain trees and timber from a lot of wild land in Saratoga county, to which the plaintiffs claimed title in fee. On the trial, the only evidence of title given by the plaintiffs, was a deed from the state comptroller to John K. Beekman, hearing date the 1st March 1834, in pursuance of a sale…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
The revised statutes (vol. 1, part 1, ch. 13) define the property liable to taxation, and the plan and manner in which assessments are to be made, the duties of assessors, the manner of collecting, and the duties of the collector, the return to be made by county treasurers to the comptroller, and make it the duty of the comptroller, when any tax charged on lands returned to him shall remain unpaid for two years from the first day of May following the year in which 'the same was assessed, to advertise and sell the same, and directs the proceedings by the comptroller, preliminary to, and upon…
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