Willard v. Pike
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass and trover for the conversion of four shares of bank stock. Plea, general issue and notice. Trial by jury, June Term, 1885, Caledonia. County, Ross, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the defendant. If the listers,'the county, or state equalizing board failed in the performance of any essential requisite, or if proof failed to show it, the list was never a legal basis of taxation.
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Trespass and trover for the conversion of four shares of bank stock. Plea, general issue and notice. Trial by jury, June Term, 1885, Caledonia. County, Ross, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the defendant. If the listers,'the county, or state equalizing board failed in the performance of any essential requisite, or if proof failed to show it, the list was never a legal basis of taxation. Houghton v. Hall, 47 Vt. 333. The certificate of the president of the equalizing bard was not admissible. Best Ev. p. 456; -Moore v. Quint, 44 Vt. 97. The listers had no authority to alter the list…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Veazey, J.
The action is trespass with a count in trover *206for the conversion of four shares of bank stock. The defence was a justification under tax warrants. The trial was by jury, and the verdict was for the defendant. The defendant, to show the validity of the taxes, put in evidence the grand list books of his town, St. Johnsbury, and the field books, for 1882, ’83, and ’84, and they were received subject to all legal objections-. No general exception was taken or allowed, and ought not to have been, to this general ruling and admission of evidence.…
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