Connecticut Valley Lumber Co. v. Monroe
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Petition, for abatement of taxes. Facts agreed, and case transferred from the February term, 1902, of the superior court by Toung, J. Tbe plaintiffs are organized as a corporation under the laws of Connecticut, and do business in this state. Their principal business is cutting, transporting, sawing, and selling lumber.
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Petition, for abatement of taxes. Facts agreed, and case transferred from the February term, 1902, of the superior court by Toung, J. Tbe plaintiffs are organized as a corporation under the laws of Connecticut, and do business in this state. Their principal business is cutting, transporting, sawing, and selling lumber. They own real estate in Monroe in this county, including a sawmill, and annually float down the Connecticut river logs cut in this state, in Vermont, and in Canada, some of which are usually held in booms at Monroe. The logs usually arrive there about June 15 of each year, and…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, J.
A case presented to this court upon an agreed statement of fact should contain some provision by which the conclusions of law arrived at upon the facts may be specially applied by an order from this court. “ It is no part of the business of the court to pronounce opinions upon abstract questions of law.” State v. Stevens, 36 N. H. 59, 61. Neither will the court pass upon legal questions presented by an agreed case which may not be presented at the trial. Sceva v. True, 53 N. H. 627, 630. It is not usually advisable to pass upon unnecessary or hypothetical eases (State v. Baron, 64 N. H. 612;…
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