Tremblay v. Murphy
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On appeal by Patrick F. Tremblay, Pet’r., against George A. Murphy, and by John LaCroix and W. S. Keene, Pet’rs., against George Z. Bernier and George A. Welch.
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On appeal by Patrick F. Tremblay, Pet’r., against George A. Murphy, and by John LaCroix and W. S. Keene, Pet’rs., against George Z. Bernier and George A. Welch. This is a proceeding under Sections 70 to 73 inclusive of Chapter 6 of the Revised Statutes by Patrick F. Tremblay, petitioner, against George A. Murphy for the office of collector of taxes for the city of Lewiston, and by John LaCroix and W. S. Keene against George Z. Bernier and George A. Welch for the office of assessors of taxes for said city of Lewiston. These cases, with several others involving the rights to various municipal…
1Opinion of the CourtSpear, J.
Chief Justice Savage heard all these cases and rendered a decision in favor of the petitioners, from which George A. Murphy, claimant to the office of Collector of Taxes, and George Z. Bernier and George A. Welch, claimants for the office of Assessors, appealed. We adopt in full, with a single exception, the following finding oif facts by Chief, Justice Savage as the basis upon which the opinion of the court will proceed. The exception relates to the clerical error in stating that the original statute applied to the Judge of Probate, when an inspection shows that it applied to all county…
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