Hinckley v. Town of Jericho

Plaintiff appeals from a decision of the Vermont State Board of Appraisers that 4.7 acres of land owned by plaintiff in the Town of Jericho should be listed at $18,300, which it also found to be the fair market value of the land. This amount is $5,000 higher than the listed value set by the board of civil authority of the town and over four times the former listed value. The reason for much of the increase is that the town had erroneously believed the land was only one acre in size, and corrected the lot size for the year in question.

At the hearing before the board, a town lister identified…