Reed v. Chandler
Supreme Court of Vermont
Replevin for two cows. The defendant filed an avowry set* ting forth that he took the cows in question as collector of school district No. 13 in Concord, by virtue of a warrant issued to him for the collection of a school tax laid by that district.
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Replevin for two cows. The defendant filed an avowry set* ting forth that he took the cows in question as collector of school district No. 13 in Concord, by virtue of a warrant issued to him for the collection of a school tax laid by that district. The onty question in the case, which the opinion of the court renders material to. be reported, was in regard to the validity, as a basis for taxation, of the grand list of Concord for 1857, upon which the tax in question was assessed. It appeared that the listers, who made up this grand list, had not appended to the same, or in any way made, a…
1Opinion of the Court
Redfield, Ch. J.
We have spent some time in examining this case with a view to find some allowable mode of legalizing the collection of the tax in question. We have before said that we feel bound to do this where it can fairly be done. Any other course of construction in the revision of the doings of subordinate municipal officers, would become an intolerable grievance, and render such duties so hazardous that no prudent man would be willing to incur the peril. This would fling them of necessity into the hands of the more reckless and desperate, a disposition which we should feel reluctant to…
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- Henry v. Town of ChesterSupreme Court of Vermont · 1843
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