Bloomer v. Town of Danby

In 1973, as the result of a reappraisal of all properties in the defendant Town of Danby, the appraisal of the appellant’s twenty acres of unimproved land was increased from $4,000 to $17,000. The taxpayer appealed this increase to the local Board of Civil Authority which, upon learning that the listers had erroneously listed the property as having forty instead of twenty acres, reduced the appraisal to $11,000. Pursuant to 32 V.S.A. § 4467, appeal was taken to the Rutland Superior Court. Following two separate hearings before that Court, it was ordered that the property be set in the list of…