Waterman v. Davis
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action for the collection of a tax brought by the tax collector for the town of Chester, under the provisions of R. L., ss. 407-401. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the May terra, 1893, Windsor county, Munson, J., presiding. The court directed a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant excepted.
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Action for the collection of a tax brought by the tax collector for the town of Chester, under the provisions of R. L., ss. 407-401. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the May terra, 1893, Windsor county, Munson, J., presiding. The court directed a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant excepted. Upon the trial the defendant offered to show that the quarry was operated by the Union Soapstone Company at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents per ton for the stone taken out; that the listers ascertained the amount paid for the use of the quarry under this contract and assessed the…
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, C. J.
This action is to x-ecover taxes assessed by the town of Chester against the defendant, as the owner of real estate in that town. He owned an undivided half of a soapstone or freestone quary, on the farm of his brother, L. H. Davis. It appeared that L. H. Davis owned the land covering the quarry. The defendant’s interest in the quarry was assessable to him as real estate. R. L., ss, 9 and 283.
I. On the trial, the defendant claimed that the grand list and the assessment of the tax were void, because he was assessed in that list for four acres of land which he neither owned nor occupied. The…
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- Taylor v. MooreSupreme Court of Vermont · 1890
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- Bentley v. WhiteSupreme Court of Vermont · 1882
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