City of Waterbury v. O'Loughlin
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by complaint in two counts, for taxes on land, the foreclosure of tax liens, and possession of the premises, brought to the District Court of Waterbury where a demurrer to the complaint was sustained (Peasley, Deputy-Judge) and judgment was rendered for the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
This is a suit for the collection of taxes assessed in the grand lists for the years 1901 and 1902, against the defendants as owners of a lot of land in Waterbury, formerly belonging to one Hannah Coss.
She had died, testate, in 1893, and in 1895 a certificate of distribution was duly filed for record in the land records of Waterbury showing that the title to the lot had become complete in Thomas Coss, Katie Coss, Margaret O’Loughlin, and Margaret O’Loughlin as trustee for Frank Quinn, to whom it had been devised by Hannah Coss. Katie Coss died testate in 1896, and devised her interest to…
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