Daniells v. Township of Watertown

This suit was commenced by filing declaration against the township on the fourteenth day of January, 1885, in the circuit court for Clinton county, to recover of the township $262,74, money received by its treasurer on an illegal sale of the plaintiff’s property for the taxes assessed against him in the year 1879; the illegality being the omission in the certificate of the supervisor, attached to the roll, of the following words: “And not at the price it would sell for at forced or auction sale,” — these words constituting a part of the statutory form.

The plaintiff claims that, for the…