Patterson v. Creighton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report from Nisi Prius, Appleton, J., presiding. This was an action of trespass. Plea, general issue. Tbe writ was dated Jan. 29, 1855, and alleged that defendants took the plaintiff’s four-wheeled pleasure wagon, with force and arms, on the 29th of August, 1854, and' converted the same to their own use, at Warren, in Lincoln county.
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On Report from Nisi Prius, Appleton, J., presiding. This was an action of trespass. Plea, general issue. Tbe writ was dated Jan. 29, 1855, and alleged that defendants took the plaintiff’s four-wheeled pleasure wagon, with force and arms, on the 29th of August, 1854, and' converted the same to their own use, at Warren, in Lincoln county. The plaintiff introduced in evidence an original warrant of commitment, with the list of taxes, dated June 25th, 1853, signed by the defendants and Lewis Vaughan, jr., the other assessor, also a second warrant, with a supplemental list of taxes, without date.…
1Opinion of the CourtCutting, J.
Robert Spear, as collector of taxes for the town of Warren, by virtue of a warrant from the defendants, two of the assessors of that town, seized and sold thereon the property described in the writ, for which act the defendants are now sought to be charged as trespassers, for conferring upon the officer unauthorized powers.
The assessment, for the non-payment of which the plaintiff’s property was sold, is said to be an unsatisfied balance of the highway tax of 1852, transferred into the money tax of 1853, in a supplemental and omitted list.
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