Dunning v. Fitch

This was an action of trespass, brought by plaintiff in error to recover damages of defendant in error for seizing and disposing of certain articles of personal property alleged to belong to him.

Defendant in error justifies the taking on the ground that he was the collector of taxes for the town of Aurora; that taxes to the amount of $27.53 had been levied on the property of one Eeifsnider for the year 1867, and the same remaining due and unpaid, on the 15th day of February, 1868, he levied on the property in controversy as the property of Eeifsnider, and sold the same to make the amount of…