Cahoon v. Coe
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Writ op Entry, by George W. Cahoon and Mary L. Cahoon, his wife, against Ebenezer S. Coe, to recover the grant of land called Wentworth’s Location. Plea, nul disseizin. In order to show title in said Mary, the plaintiffs’ counsel read' the act of the legislature of Now Hampshire, approved July 3, 1847, entitled “ An act to raise $60,000 for the use of the State.”
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Writ op Entry, by George W. Cahoon and Mary L. Cahoon, his wife, against Ebenezer S. Coe, to recover the grant of land called Wentworth’s Location. Plea, nul disseizin. In order to show title in said Mary, the plaintiffs’ counsel read' the act of the legislature of Now Hampshire, approved July 3, 1847, entitled “ An act to raise $60,000 for the use of the State.” They then read copies of certain papers deposited by Charles Bellows, sheriff of the county of Coos, in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas February 2, 1850, which copies were certified by the clerk. One of -the…
1Opinion of the Court
* Doe, J.
I. The warrant of the state treasurer empowered the sheriff to collect $3 tax, the proportion of Wentworth’s Location, *524under the act of 1847 raising $80,000 to be assessed, collected, and paid into the treasury on or before December 1, 1848. In the advertisement the tax was described as the State tax “ for the year A. D. 1848.” The. law did not expressly describe the tax as of any particular year, and there is. no absolute rule requiring it to be called by the name of the year, of the act of the legislature authorizing it, or by the name of the year in which it is expected to be…
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