Company for Erecting & Supporting a Toll-Bridge from New Haven to East Haven v. Osborn
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven county against the defendant, as tax collector, to recover the amount of certain taxes collected of the plaintiffs upon warrants held by him.
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Assumpsit, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven county against the defendant, as tax collector, to recover the amount of certain taxes collected of the plaintiffs upon warrants held by him. The facts, which were found by an auditor, were as follows: The plaintiffs are a. corporation under a charter granted by the legislature in the year 1796, upon the petition of sundry inhabitants of East Haven, the principal provisions of which are as follows: “ Resolved by this Assembly, That liberty be and the same is hereby granted to said inhabitants of East Haven to erect a bridge across from New…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
The assessors of the town of New Haven assessed the plaintiffs, by reason of their ownership of certain wharves and docks, and a certain building upon them, situated at the steamboat landing, in the city of New Haven, near the westerly terminus of the plaintiffs’ bridge, the sum of one hundred and two thousand dollars, and the defendant, *19as the collector of the taxes regularly laid by the Town and City of New Haven, and by the New Haven City School District upon that assessment, having collected the taxes under duress of his warrant, the plaintiffs now seek to recover back the money so…
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