Capron v. Raistrick
Supreme Court of Vermont
TRESPASS for taking personal property. Plea, the- general issue and notice. Trial by the court, December term, 1871, Barrett, J., presiding. The plaintiff proved the taking and damage, and rested. The defendant justified as collector of school district No. 5, in Plymouth.
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TRESPASS for taking personal property. Plea, the- general issue and notice. Trial by the court, December term, 1871, Barrett, J., presiding. The plaintiff proved the taking and damage, and rested. The defendant justified as collector of school district No. 5, in Plymouth. It was conceded that said district was legally organized, and that the plaintiff had a legal grand list in said district for the year 1869. The defendant put in a copy from the records of said' district of a meeting held on the 16th day of October, 1869, and the annual meeting of said district held on the 29th day of March,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wheeler, J.
Whether the vote to raise money to defray the expenses of the school-house, passed at the meeting of October 16th, 1869, would have been a sufficient foundation for the assessment of a tax, if no further vote had been passed relating to that . subject, or not, the vote to raise three hundred cents on the dollar, for that same purpose, passed at the meeting of March 29th, 1870, in connection with the article in the warning upon which that vote appears to have been taken, was a vote to raise that amount upon the grand list of the district for…
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