Marshall v. Town of Newington

The plaintiffs appealed to the Court of Common Pleas from a decision of the board of tax review of the defendant town which denied relief to the plaintiffs on their appeals from the refusal of the assessor to classify and assess three tracts of their land as farmland on the tax lists of 1964 and 1965. By way of relief, the appeals prayed only that the valuation of the property be reduced. During the trial, the plaintiffs were permitted to amend their prayers for relief to include a prayer that the property be classified as farmland. The court found the issues for the defendant in each case…