Legal Opinion

Town of Brookfield v. Bigelow

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided January 16, 1908PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal in Chancery, Orange County. Heard at Chambers, September 26, 1906, on the pleadings and master’s report, Tyler, Chancellor. Decree, that the bill be dismissed with costs to the defendants. The orator appealed. The opinion fully states the case. The treasurer should account for. all taxes collected by the collector, and show abatements or some other disposition of the delinquent taxes. State v. Powell, 40 La. Ann. 234; Police Jury v. Broohshier, 31 La.

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Appeal in Chancery, Orange County. Heard at Chambers, September 26, 1906, on the pleadings and master’s report, Tyler, Chancellor. Decree, that the bill be dismissed with costs to the defendants. The orator appealed. The opinion fully states the case. The treasurer should account for. all taxes collected by the collector, and show abatements or some other disposition of the delinquent taxes. State v. Powell, 40 La. Ann. 234; Police Jury v. Broohshier, 31 La. Ann. 736; State v. Guilbeau, 37 La. Ann. 718; Vermillion v. Gomeau, 10 La. Ann. 695; Scarborough v. Stevens, 3 Rob. (La.) 147; Fahe v.…

1Opinion of the Court

Taylor, Superior Judge.

The orator brings its bill of complaint for an accounting and the recovery of trust funds alleged to be held by the defendant Bigelow as treasurer of the orator. The defendant Bigelow held the office of treasurer by successive elections from 1889 to 1904 and the other defendants are sureties on his official bonds for the several years during Mr. Bigelow’s term of office. ' The cause was heard below on the pleadings and master’s report and is here on appeal from the decree of the chancellor dismissing the bill.

Of the several claims urged below only two are insisted upon…

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. Town of St. George v. TilleySupreme Court of Vermont · 1914
  2. Town of Enfield v. HamiltonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1930
  3. Rooney Vermont Associates v. Town of PownalSupreme Court of Vermont · 1981
  4. Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion, Texas Attorney General Reports1942

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