Morgan v. Cree
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case against the defendants as listers of the town of Wheelock, for appraising and setting in the grand list of 1858, one hundred acres of the plaintiff’s land in said town, at the sum of $800, making a list of $8, by means whereof a tax of $3.28 was assessed by the selectmen against the plaintiff, to pay town expenses, for which the collector of said town, on the 23d day of April, 1859, dis-trained the property of the plaintiff, and afterwards sold the same to satisfy said…
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Case against the defendants as listers of the town of Wheelock, for appraising and setting in the grand list of 1858, one hundred acres of the plaintiff’s land in said town, at the sum of $800, making a list of $8, by means whereof a tax of $3.28 was assessed by the selectmen against the plaintiff, to pay town expenses, for which the collector of said town, on the 23d day of April, 1859, dis-trained the property of the plaintiff, and afterwards sold the same to satisfy said tax and costs. At the June term, 1860, Poland, J., presiding, the case was tried upon the following agreed statement of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Peck, J.
The grievance complained of is, that the defendants as listers of the town of Wheelock, set the plaintiff’s land, situate *783in Wkeelock, in the list of that town for the assessment of town taxes; and that in consequence thereof, town taxes were assessed upon it against the plaintiff, and collected by the sale of the plaintiff’s property. The ground upon which the plaintiff claims to recover is, that the land, by the original charter of the town, is exempt from such taxation, and that therefore it was wrongfully set in the list. It appears by the…
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