School District No. 1 v. Kittridge
Supreme Court of Vermont
Duties and liabilities of listers. Rights of. school districts against them. Action on the case against the defendants, for having, as listers of the town of St. Johnsbury, in the year 1852, designated, in the grand list of that town for that year, $20,000 worth of the personal property of E. & T. Fairbanks & Co., which was situated and belonged in school district No. 1, as being in school district No. 2, in said town; and for refusing to correct said designation when…
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Duties and liabilities of listers. Rights of. school districts against them. Action on the case against the defendants, for having, as listers of the town of St. Johnsbury, in the year 1852, designated, in the grand list of that town for that year, $20,000 worth of the personal property of E. & T. Fairbanks & Co., which was situated and belonged in school district No. 1, as being in school district No. 2, in said town; and for refusing to correct said designation when requested, whereby the plaintiffs were deprived of the right of assessing any part of their taxes upon the list of said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Isham, J.
The plaintiffs have brought this action in which they complain that the defendants, as listers of the town of St. Johns-bury, have wrongfully divided the list of E. & T. Fairbanks & Co., in relation to their personal property ; having designated one-fifth of the same as being in district No. 2, when it should have been designated as being in district No. 1. It appears that a tax of about fifty dollars was laid in district No. 1, in the year 1852, and that in collecting that tax, the district have been deprived of the benefit of that property…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. v. KittredgeSupreme Court of Vermont · 1850
3Cited by3 opinions
- Shields v. GerhartSupreme Court of Vermont · 1995
- Woodward v. FrenchSupreme Court of Vermont · 1858
- Vermont Fruit Co. v. WilsonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1918