Leach v. Blakely
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass. The declaration alleged that the defendant, on the 15th day of July 1859, at Pawlet, in this state, assaulted, imprisoned, and detained the plaintiff, without any reasonable cause, and thereby compelled the plaintiff to pay the defendant the sum of' one hundred dollars, etc.
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Trespass. The declaration alleged that the defendant, on the 15th day of July 1859, at Pawlet, in this state, assaulted, imprisoned, and detained the plaintiff, without any reasonable cause, and thereby compelled the plaintiff to pay the defendant the sum of' one hundred dollars, etc. The defendant, besides pleading the general issue, also filed a special plea, in which he set forth, that at a meeting of the inhabitants ‘ of the town of Pawlet, duly warned and held on the first Tuesday of March, 1859, by vote of the inhabitants a town tax of twenty-five cents on the dollar of the "grand list…
1Opinion of the CourtKellogg, J.
The principal question which arises on the plea in bar in this case, calls for the construction of the provisions of the statute now in force, relating to the grand list, in respect to the remedy on an appeal from the listers to the selectmen by a person agrieved by an assessment made by the listers for money on hand and debts due. (Act of 1855, No. 43, p. 53, sec. 26, 27.) The plea states, inter alia, that the listers of the town of Pawlet, in the month of April, 1859, assessed the plaintiff, an inhabitant of that town, in the list of said town for that year in the sum of eight thousand…
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