Middlebury College v. Town of Hancock

The plaintiff in this chancery suit seeks an injunction restraining the defendant from further prosecution of a pending action in Addison County Court for the collection of taxes assessed upon certain tracts of land in the defendant town which were devised to the plaintiff as trustee in trust as a park by Joseph Battell, deceased. The devise was made by the third paragraph of the Battell will which is set forth in full in Middlebury College v. Central Power Corporation of Vermont, 101 Vt 325, 332, 143A 384, that case being hereafter referred to as the Central Power Corporation case. An…