Taylor v. Coolidge
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass for false imprisonment. Plea, the general issue with notice of justification under a tax warrant. Trial by jury at the May term, 1891, Ross, Oh. J., presiding. The Court directed a verdict for the plaintiff. Exceptions by the defendant.
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Trespass for false imprisonment. Plea, the general issue with notice of justification under a tax warrant. Trial by jury at the May term, 1891, Ross, Oh. J., presiding. The Court directed a verdict for the plaintiff. Exceptions by the defendant. The evidence of the plaintiff tended to show that on or about the 19th day of May, 1885, he was arrested by the defendant, at Plymouth, and transported to Woodstock for the purpose of being committed to the public jail, and that he was compelled to pay, and did pay, in Woodstock, the sum of $49.73 to procure his release from such restraint. ' The…
1Opinion of the Court
*509The opinion of the court was delivered by
TYLER, J.
It is not claimed in the brief of the defendant’s counsel that the warrant attached to this tax-bill was legal. Under the law existing when the tax of 1882 was assessed, the selectmen, on or before June 1, 1883, should have delivered a list of the unpaid taxes to the collector of town taxes, who should. have collected and paid the same to the treasurer on or before the first of the following August. R. L. 3053. Even this provision of the statute had been repealed when the selectmen placed the warrant in the hands of the defendant, in May,…
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