Allison v. Hobbs
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions by defendants. Trespass against the assessors of taxes of the town of Milo for an illegal arrest of the plaintiff, upon a tax warrant issued by them to the collector of taxes. The case appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWiswell, C. J.
Action of trespass for the alleged illegal arrest and false imprisonment of the plaintiff, upon a tax warrant issued by the defendants.
The defendants as assessors of the town of Milo for the year 1898, assessed a poll-tax against the plaintiff as an inhabitant of that town. The tax was committed to the collector of taxes, who on June 16, 1899, arrested the plaintiff upon the warrant issued by the defendants and took him to Bangor for the purpose of committing him to jail. The plaintiff claimed that he was not an inhabitant of the town in that year, that consequently he was not liable to be…
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