Minot v. Curtis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Trespass for taking and carrying away the plaintiff’s horse. The parties submitted the action to the decision of the Court upon an agreed case, from which it appears, that one Smith Batch-elder, as a collector of taxes, by virtue of a tax-bill to him committed, in which the plaintiff was assessed the sum of one dollar and eighty-four cents, and of a warrant under the hands and seals of the defendants, styling themselves assessors of the Congregational parish in Brunswick,…
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Trespass for taking and carrying away the plaintiff’s horse. The parties submitted the action to the decision of the Court upon an agreed case, from which it appears, that one Smith Batch-elder, as a collector of taxes, by virtue of a tax-bill to him committed, in which the plaintiff was assessed the sum of one dollar and eighty-four cents, and of a warrant under the hands and seals of the defendants, styling themselves assessors of the Congregational parish in Brunswick, took the horse mentioned in the plaintiff’s declaration, and sold the same at public auction, having previously advertised…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
We are all of opinion that the creating a poll parish is as much within the intention of the legislature in the statute referred to, as the erecting of a parish circumscribed by one continuous line, and in which all the lands shall join and be contiguous to each other. As to the fact of this parish having used several names in its public proceedings, we know not why corporations may not be known by several names, as well as individuals. If this point had been before the jury as a question of fact, the defendants would have been held to prove the identity of the parish thus acting…
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