Woodcock v. Bolster
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass for taking a waggon, one neck yoke and two straps, one whiffletree, one evener and two clevies. The defendant justified the taking and disposing of the property by virtue of a tax bill and warrant issued to him as collector of school district No. 8, in Winhall.
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Trespass for taking a waggon, one neck yoke and two straps, one whiffletree, one evener and two clevies. The defendant justified the taking and disposing of the property by virtue of a tax bill and warrant issued to him as collector of school district No. 8, in Winhall. The following facts were agreed upon : There has been, for some eight or ten years, in Winhall, a legally organized school district, known and designated as district No. 8. At the time of the assessment of taxes hereinafter mentioned,the plaintiff had a legal grand list of eleven dollars, on which he was liable to pay taxes in…
1Opinion of the Court
Poland, Ch. J.
The first of the plaintiff’s objections to the sufficiency'of the defendant’s justification is, that the defendant was not legally elected collector.
This rests wholly upon the ground that the meeting of the district, at which he was elected, was notified by a person who was not legally holding the office of clerk of the district. He was elected clerk at the annual meeting of the district in March, 1859, which is conceded to have been a valid election, and was also elected clerk at the meeting of the distrtet on the 12th of March, 1861, called by the selectmen to re-organize the…
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