People Ex Rel. Mygatt v. Supervisors of Chenango County
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the supreme court, directing a peremptory mandamus to issue against the supervisors of Chenango county. In November, 1848, an alternative mandamus was issued out of the supreme court, on the relation of William Mygatt, directed to the supervisors of the county of Chenango.
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Appeal from a judgment of the supreme court, directing a peremptory mandamus to issue against the supervisors of Chenango county. In November, 1848, an alternative mandamus was issued out of the supreme court, on the relation of William Mygatt, directed to the supervisors of the county of Chenango. The writ recited th.at it was represented that, in the summer of 1846, Mygatt, then being a resident and inhabitant of the town of Oswego in the county of Oswego, was assessed by the assessors of the town of Oxford in the county of Chenango, and subjected to a tax of $100 for his personal property…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
At the time Mygatt was called upon by Wash-burn, one of the assessors of Oxford, in the county of Chenango, for the purpose of obtaining the necessary information to enable the assessors to make the assessment, he was a resident of that town, but soon thereafter, in the same month, he removed to the county of Oswego. The statute requires that the owner of personal estate should be assessed for it in the town where he resides, (1 R. S. 389, § 5 ;) and the first question to be determined in this case is, whether the assessment of Mygatt was made at the time he was called upon by Washburn.
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