Lange v. Soffell

This action was commenced before a justice of the peace to recover back $19.45, paid by appellee in discharge of a tax upon his land levied by the town of Proviso, for the building of a hard road. The Supreme Court held the levy illegal, and at the annual town meeting thereafter, a resolution was passed directing the commissioners of highways and their treasurer, to refund to the persons who paid the tax, fro rata, according to the several sums paid by them, on said persons producing satisfactory evidence of their payment of said tax, so much of the fund collected for the improvement as…