Lisbon v. Bath
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, for supplies furnished to one Clougb, a pauper, alleged to have his settlement in Bath. The only question in dispute was, whether the tax of 1831, alleged to have been assessed by the defendants upon Clough that year, was legally assessed and paid. The State, county, school and town tax amounted to $3.03, and no exception was taken to the legality of that assessment.
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Assumpsit, for supplies furnished to one Clougb, a pauper, alleged to have his settlement in Bath. The only question in dispute was, whether the tax of 1831, alleged to have been assessed by the defendants upon Clough that year, was legally assessed and paid. The State, county, school and town tax amounted to $3.03, and no exception was taken to the legality of that assessment. There was also assessed upon Clough for that year, the sum of fifty-one cents, for the.support of the ministry in Bath, making the whole tax to be $3.54. In 1805, the town, at a legal meeting, voted to settle the Rev.…
1Opinion of the CourtEastman, J.
Two questions arise in this case. The first is, whether the sum assessed against Clough, the pauper, for the support of the ministry, being fifty-one cents, was legally assessed or not; and the second, whether the balance' of the tax, being three dollars and three cents, was paid. The whole tax assessed against Clough in the year 1831 was three dollars and fifty-four cents. Three dollars only have been actually paid, and in order to charge the town of Bath with the settlement of Clough, it must appear that the ministry tax was illegally assessed — and *325therefore need not be satisfied — and…
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