Harris v. Willard
Superior Court of New Hampshire
This was an action on the case. The declaration stated that the' defendants were duly appointed and qualified selectmen and assessors for the town of Langdon for the years 1787, 1788; accepted, and entered upon the duties of the said offices; “ that the defendants, as such officers, were by law obliged to make out under their hands, and deliver to the collector of taxes for said Langdon, for said years, a good and sufficient list of the rates and taxes by the said collector…
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This was an action on the case. The declaration stated that the' defendants were duly appointed and qualified selectmen and assessors for the town of Langdon for the years 1787, 1788; accepted, and entered upon the duties of the said offices; “ that the defendants, as such officers, were by law obliged to make out under their hands, and deliver to the collector of taxes for said Langdon, for said years, a good and sufficient list of the rates and taxes by the said collector to be collected ; and, where the owners of lands in said Langdon liable to be taxed were not resident therein, and were…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
By these pleadings it is admitted that the defendants were *65selectmen; that they made a list of taxes, and delivered it to the collector, which was not signed by them; and that in the list the lands of non-residents were not assessed either in the names of the then owners or original proprietor ; that forty acres sold by the collector to a person under whom the plaintiff claims has been, through the insufficiency of the list, recovered from the plaintiff in a suit at law.
Are the defaults and malfeasances thus described any cause of action against selectmen, and is the plaintiff so situated…
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- People ex rel. Rice v. Auditor GeneralMichigan Supreme Court · 1874
- Gardner v. The MayorNew York Supreme Court · 1857
- Norton v. Supervisors of Rock CountyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1861
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