Adams v. Sleeper
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action of replevin for ten sheep and one colt. Plea, 'the general issue. Trial by jury at the June term, 1891, Taft, J., presiding. The court directed a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. It was conceded upon the tidal that the plaintiff was the owner of the property replevied at the time it was taken by the defendant. The defendant justified under a tax warrant, as a collector of taxes in school district No. 3,. in the town of Washington.
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Action of replevin for ten sheep and one colt. Plea, 'the general issue. Trial by jury at the June term, 1891, Taft, J., presiding. The court directed a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. It was conceded upon the tidal that the plaintiff was the owner of the property replevied at the time it was taken by the defendant. The defendant justified under a tax warrant, as a collector of taxes in school district No. 3,. in the town of Washington. The warning for the meeting at which the taxes were voted, was not recorded until after the meeting was held. The property upon which the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
TYLER, J.
1. The plaintiff claims that the tax was illegal because her personal property and real estate were set in the grand list to B. H. Adams and wife instead of to herself alone. This point does not seem to us well taken. It cannot be said that the property was not set to Mrs. Adams as the owner : the error was in joining her husband’s name with hers, as if they were joint owners. Sec. 322, R. L. makes it the duty of the tax payer to procúre a blank inventory and fill out and complete the same in all respects as required by law and to return it to…
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