Thames Manufacturing Co. v. Lathrop
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of trespass de bonis asportatis, tried at Norwich, January term 1829, before Hosmer, Ch. J. The following are the material facts in the case.
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This was an action of trespass de bonis asportatis, tried at Norwich, January term 1829, before Hosmer, Ch. J. The following are the material facts in the case. The town of Bozrah voted a tax upon the list of 1827. A list of assessments was duly made out; but an abstract of it was not left with the town-clerk until the 20th of December, 1827. After the 1st day of that month, the plaintiffs repeatedly called at the town-clei-k’s office to inspect their list; but the abstract was not there. The board of relief, after having given ten days public notice pursuant to law, met on the last Monday of…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
The first enquiry regards the validity of the tax.
A general statute applicable to all our towns, has been made for the assessment oi taxes. Stat. 444.. By this law, assessors are to be chosen, whose duty it is to receive the lists of all the inhabitants ; and having perfected them, by adding property omitted, by valuation of the items, and by the requisite assessments, to return an abstract of the lists to the town-clerk, on or before the 1st of December in each year. The lists and valuations the town-clerk is directed to submit, when requested, to the inspection of every person…
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