Sawyer v. Gleason
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Writ oe Entry, for an undivided half of a tract of land in Dublin. Facts found by a referee. The premises were bought in May, 1864, by William I. Sawyer and Eli Thomas, who took a deed in which the grantees were the plaintiff, and Richard Thomas. The grantees and the purchasers have, all the time, been non-residents.
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Writ oe Entry, for an undivided half of a tract of land in Dublin. Facts found by a referee. The premises were bought in May, 1864, by William I. Sawyer and Eli Thomas, who took a deed in which the grantees were the plaintiff, and Richard Thomas. The grantees and the purchasers have, all the time, been non-residents. The premises were improved land, taxable as non-resident, and from 1864 to 1873 were assessed to Eli Thomas, who claimed to be the owner, and who paid the taxes annually during that period, being repaid one half of them by William I. Sawyer. In 1873 the tax was assessed as usual,…
1Opinion of the CourtDoe, C. J.
The form of the assessment was the same in 1873 as in each of the previous eight years. During all that time, Sawyer and Thomas, the plaintiffs in interest, had paid the taxes without objection; and if they desired a different form of assessment, they should have made known to the selectmen what form they preferred. The land was taxed to Thomas, who was one of the equitable owners, and claimed to be the owner. It was described in the assessment as the “ Jack Bemis farm,” the name by which it had been generally known for more than thirty years. The taxes, assessed with this description of the…
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