Meserve v. Folsom
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action for false imprisonment. Plea, the general issue with notice of special matter in justification. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1887, Caledonia County, Taft, J., presiding. Yerdict and judgment for the defendants. Exceptions by the plaintiff.
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This was an action for false imprisonment. Plea, the general issue with notice of special matter in justification. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1887, Caledonia County, Taft, J., presiding. Yerdict and judgment for the defendants. Exceptions by the plaintiff. The evidence of the plaintiff tended to show that he was •arrested by the defendants, taken by them to the county jail at St. Jolmsbury, delivered into the custody of the jailer, and that he paid a pretended tax of $7.99, and $9.86 costs, $17.85 in all, to avoid being incarcerated in jail. The defendants justified under a tax…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Powers, J.
The listers of Wheelock, after making up the plaintiff’s list, notified him in writing that “ agreeable to an act revising, consolidating and amending the laws relating to the grand list and in accordance with section 17 of said act,” they had assessed him in a stated amount for money on hand and debts due, and agreeably to said act had doubled the same, etc.
By this notice the plaintiff could not be misled concerning the proceedings of the listers. The public law of the State is referred to as the basis of their procedure.
Section 17, which…
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