Bartlett v. Kinsley
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of trespass for an illegal arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff. The cause was tried, on the general issue, at Hartford, January term, 1842, before Williams, Ch. J. The defendant, Kinsley, claimed to justify the alleged imprisonment, by virtue of a warrant upon a rate-bill, made by . the other defendants, who were a committee of the second school district in East-Windsor.
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This was an action of trespass for an illegal arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff. The cause was tried, on the general issue, at Hartford, January term, 1842, before Williams, Ch. J. The defendant, Kinsley, claimed to justify the alleged imprisonment, by virtue of a warrant upon a rate-bill, made by . the other defendants, who were a committee of the second school district in East-Windsor. Under this warrant, the arrest and imprisonment complained of, were made, on the refusal of the plaintiff to pay the tax set against his name in the rate-bill. The plaintiff claimed, that the tax was…
1Opinion of the CourtChurch, J.
Questions growing out of the action of the minor munincipal corporations of the state, are of very frequent ocurrence, and opportunities for litigation are too often found in their proceedings. And though we require of them a substantial compliance with the laws regulating their action ; yet while their votes are confined to subjects within their jurisdiction, and may be reasonably understood, we should, with *332great reluctance, give to them such a construction ás wouM .destroy their legal effect, and place those who act under them in good faith, in the position of trespassers,
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