F. H. Whittelsey Co. v. Town of Windsor Locks
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to secure the cancellation and discharge of a certificate of tax-lien, as an alleged cloud upon the plaintiff’s title to its real estate, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County, Smith, J., upon a demurrer to the answer; the court overruled the demurrer arid, upon the refusal of the plaintiff to plead further, rendered judgment for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The plaintiff claims a judgment requiring the defendant, the town of Windsor Locks, to cancel a certificate of a lien for a tax against its real estate, listed and assessed against its predecessor in title, The Whittelsey Paper Company.
The complaint recites that on March 31st, 1908, the taxes of this Company, which were laid October 1st, 1906, and became due April 1st, 1907, not having been paid, the defendant town caused to be recorded in its town records a certificate to extend the tax lien on said real estate under the provisions of General Statutes, § 2403, and the amendments thereto, and…
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