Sanford's Appeal From Board of Relief
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action in the nature of an appeal from the doings of the board of relief of the town of Roxbury, in adding a mine or quarry to the plaintiff’s tax list, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered confirming the action of the board of relief, and appeal by the taxpayer. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
In 1894 and 1895 the plaintiff, who is a resident of Roxbury in this State, leased for the term of forty years to one Phillips, by two written leases containing similar provisions, about twelve acres of land in said Roxbury containing mineral deposits called garnets.
By various duly recorded assignments H. Behr & Company, a copartnership the members of which resided in New York, had, prior to October 1st, 1901, become the owners of all the estate, rights and privileges granted by said leases, and had opened quarries or mines upon said land. Behr & Company having given in no tax list for the…
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