Hill v. Sellick & Hand
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an appeal from a judgment of the county court of the county of Seneca, reversing the judgment of a justice of the peace. Hill sued Sellick and Hand, to recover the value of a set of harness taken and converted by them.
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THIS was an appeal from a judgment of the county court of the county of Seneca, reversing the judgment of a justice of the peace. Hill sued Sellick and Hand, to recover the value of a set of harness taken and converted by them. The defendants justified on the ground that they were trustees of joint school district dSTo. 4, in the towns of Ovid and Covert, in said county, and that the property in question was levied upon and sold by the collector of said district, by virtue of a warrant issued by the defendants as such trustees, to said collector, to. ■ collect a tax assessed by them upon the'…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, T. it. Strong, Jl
The ground of recovery by the plaintiff before the justice appears to have been, that the trustees in assessing the tax voted by the district, did not assess one half on the part of the district lying in the town of Ovid, and one half on the part lying in the town of Covert, according to a determination of the town superintendents of the respective towns, previously made; and that therefore the assessment, and the warrant issued for the collection of the tax, under which the plaintiff’s property was taken, were absolutely void.
It is claimed by the plaintiffs…
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