Pond v. Negus
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of trespass, brought against the defendants, who were assessors of the town of Petersham, for illegally assessing the plaintiff towards a tax voted by a school-district in Petersham,, of which the plaintiff is an inhabitant.
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This was an action of trespass, brought against the defendants, who were assessors of the town of Petersham, for illegally assessing the plaintiff towards a tax voted by a school-district in Petersham,, of which the plaintiff is an inhabitant. A case was made for the opinion of the Court, and if that # opinion [ * 231 ] was in favor of the plaintiff, the defendants agreed to be defaulted, and that judgment be rendered against them, for the sum assessed on the plaintiff with interest and costs; otherwise the plaintiff was to be nonsuit, and the defendants recover their costs.
1Opinion of the Court
The facts on which the opinion of the Court was formed will appear in that opinion, which was delivered as follows, by.Parsons, C. J.
From the facts agreed in this case, it appears that the district, on the 5th of April, 1803, passed a legal vote to raise, by tax, the sum of 400 dollars, for the purpose of building a district school-house; and further, that they voted that the money should be paid by the 1st day of March, 1804; that on the"31st day of the same March, the district clerk certified the said vote for the raising and paying of the said sum to the defendants and one W. W., then the…
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