Rowell v. Horton
Supreme Court of Vermont
Replevin for a wagon. Plea, not guilty. Trial by court, March Term, 1884, Veazey, J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant was constable and collector of taxes of the town of Chittenden, and collector of school district No. 1 in said town; and justified the taking and détaining said wagon under three several tax-bills and warrants. Two of the warrants were for the collection of school-district taxes, and one warrant for the collection of highway taxes.
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Replevin for a wagon. Plea, not guilty. Trial by court, March Term, 1884, Veazey, J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant was constable and collector of taxes of the town of Chittenden, and collector of school district No. 1 in said town; and justified the taking and détaining said wagon under three several tax-bills and warrants. Two of the warrants were for the collection of school-district taxes, and one warrant for the collection of highway taxes. As to this last-mentioned warrant the exceptions stated: “ This highway tax was made upon a book that had been used for…
1Opinion of the Court
The'opinion of the court was delivered by
Rowbll, J.
On March 29, 1881, the school district voted to have two terms of school of fourteen weeks each, to commence on the first Monday of May and the first Monday of December respectively, and “to use the public money, and raise the balance on the grand list, for the support of said schools.”
We construe this vote to mean, that the public money should be used towards defraying the expenses of the schools, and that the balance only of such expenses should be defrayed by money raised by taxation.
The statute provides that the prudential committee…
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