Williams v. Inhabitants of School District No. 1
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for money had and received to recover back $21-91 paid by the plaintiff for a school district tax, assessed upon him in 1836, as an inhabitant of School District No. 1, in Lunenburg. Trial in the Court of Common Pleas, before Williams J. It was admitted that the plaintiff was arrested in January, 1837, by Jacob Hadley, a collector of taxes in Lunenburg, and that he thereupon paid the tax. The defendants produced the school district records.
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Assumpsit for money had and received to recover back $21-91 paid by the plaintiff for a school district tax, assessed upon him in 1836, as an inhabitant of School District No. 1, in Lunenburg. Trial in the Court of Common Pleas, before Williams J. It was admitted that the plaintiff was arrested in January, 1837, by Jacob Hadley, a collector of taxes in Lunenburg, and that he thereupon paid the tax. The defendants produced the school district records. By these it appeared, that a district meeting, to be held on April 11, 1836, was called by Thomas Spaulding as prudential committée (in the mode…
1Opinion of the Court
Shaw C. J.
delivered the opinion of the Court. Assumpsit to recover back money alleged to have been illegally assessed upon the plaintiff as a school district tax. The case comes before the Court upon exceptions to the decisions and *80directions of the Court of Common Pleas in matters of law. Various exceptions were taken to the regularity of the meetings of the school district at which the tax was voted, and those preparatory thereto, in order to show that the tax was not legally and rightfully assessed.
It was objected that the school district meeting, held April 11, 1836, was called by Thomas…
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