Legal Opinion

Cornwall v. Todd

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided September 15, 1871PublishedCited by 24 opinions

Bill in equity, by the petitioner as executor of the will of Thomas D. Moss, deceased, for an injunction to restrain the levy of a tax -warrant; brought to the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven county, and reserved, on facts found, for advice. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.

The petitioner ■ is the executor of the will of Thomas D. Moss, deceased. In the year 1869, he made and returned to the assessors of the town a list of the taxable property of the estate, not in his own name as trustee, but in the name of “ Thomas D. Moss’s estate.” At that time the estate had not been distributed or finally disposed of by the court of probate. There was included in the list real estate and money at interest. Thomas D. Moss at the time of his death resided in the fifth school district in the town of Cheshire, where his widow still resides, and where the real estate named in…

2Cited by24 opinions

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  5. Bankers Trust Co. v. BlodgettSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1921

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