Mead v. Mallet
Supreme Court of Vermont
THIS was an action of ejectment for a farm ¡of land in Manchesr\ • \ • * . ter. On trial to the jury upon lae general issue, the plaintiff made out an apparent good title on record, and proved that he died, seized of the premises demanded.
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THIS was an action of ejectment for a farm ¡of land in Manchesr\ • \ • * . ter. On trial to the jury upon lae general issue, the plaintiff made out an apparent good title on record, and proved that he died, seized of the premises demanded. The defendants then set up a title in one of the defendants, (the other being a tenant) by virtue of a vendue sale of the premises, by Bull, constable of the town of Manchester, and collector of a land tax of one cent on the acre, granted by the legislature in October, 1797- The act granting the tax was read, and the defendants offered in evidence, a copy…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Whatever might be considered as the true, construction of the act, were it res integra, it must now be considered, that, if a collector of a land tax, neglect to lodge in the proper office, an account of his proceedings, within thirty days from the close of his vendue, agreeably to the provisions of the act, his sales are void. Such has been the uniform construction of the act, ever' since it was passed. On the faith of this construction, numerous estates in land have been bought and sold, and are now holden, and, it would be productive of great injustice now to disturb it.
Verdict…
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