Tripp v. Torrey

This is an action of the case for the recovery of a tax, amounting to seventy-five dollars, assessed by the city of Providence, in the year 1888, against the defendant, on personal property valued at five thousand dollars. It was brought in the Court of Common Pleas, which rendered judgment for the plaintiff, and is now before this court on the defendant’s exceptions.

The plaintiff sues under Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 44, § 26, which provides that “ The collector of any tax may recover the amount thereof in an action of the case against the person taxed, in the Court of Common Pleas or Supreme…