Brown v. Hutchinson
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action of trespass for three pine logs. Plea, general issue, and trial by jury. ' Upon the trial in the county court, the plaintiff proved that he cut the logs in question on lot No. 8, in the division of the town of Worcester, drawn to the right of William Ashbridge, and after he had drawn part of them to the mill the defendant took and converted them to his own use.
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This was an action of trespass for three pine logs. Plea, general issue, and trial by jury. ' Upon the trial in the county court, the plaintiff proved that he cut the logs in question on lot No. 8, in the division of the town of Worcester, drawn to the right of William Ashbridge, and after he had drawn part of them to the mill the defendant took and converted them to his own use. The defendant gave in evidence an original writ in his favor against one Araunah Spear, with the officer’s return thereon, and proved that the logs were taken by virtue of said writ, by the officer, he himself acting…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
In this case the plaintiff claims title to the land from a source resting ultimately upon the validity of a collector’s deed. No other objection is urged against his title, except what arises in regard to the proceeding in the collection of this tax. The tax was granted by the legislature at their session in 1792, and the committee and collector, in “ collecting, accounting and disposing” of the same, are required, by the act granting the tax, to govern themselves according to “the act passed March 8, 1787, and the addition to said act,…
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