Bargman v. Brewer

The plaintiffs, forty-nine nonresident property owners from the town of Hubbardton, Vermont, brought an action seeking an order in the nature of mandamus to compel defendants, listers and selectmen from the town of Hubbardton, Vermont, to perform certain statutory duties pertaining to that town’s 1981 grand list. One of the allegations set forth in plaintiffs’ complaint was that defendants had failed to lodge with the town clerk, for the taxpayers’ inspection, a book or books required by law to be furnished for the abstract of individual lists and the grand list. See 32 V.S.A. § 4111(d).…