Jones v. Camp
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass for taking certain personal property. Plea, not guilty, with notice that the property in question was taken by the defendant as collector of school district No. 8 in Chelsea, and No. 15 in Brookfield, by virtue of a regular tax bill and warrant, &e. The case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts.
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Trespass for taking certain personal property. Plea, not guilty, with notice that the property in question was taken by the defendant as collector of school district No. 8 in Chelsea, and No. 15 in Brookfield, by virtue of a regular tax bill and warrant, &e. The case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts. It was agreed that in 1816 district No. 8 in Chelsea, and district No. 15 in Brookfield, were united by a concurrent vote of both towns, and since that time have kept up an organization. From 1816 to 1835 the farm of the plaintiff, and the persons residing on and occupying it, belonged…
1Opinion of the CourtPierpoint, J.
It appears from the case that in 1816 a school district was formed composed of district No. 8 in the town of Chelsea, and No. 15 in the town of Brookfield, by the concurrent vote of the two towns, and that such district has kept up its organization from that time to the present; that the farm on which the plaintiff resides, and on which the tax was laid, which the defendant, as collector of said district, was attempting to collect when he took the property sued for, lies within the limits of said district as originally formed; that no attempt was made to vary or alter the lines or extent of…
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