Legal Opinion
Eyers Woolen Co. v. Gilsum
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided April 8, 1929PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPeaslee, C. J.
The transferred case states the issue to be the validity of Laws 1925, chapter 297, which reads as follows: “Section 1. That the town of Gilsum in Cheshire county be authorized to exempt from taxation for a term of not more than ten years a new woolen mill and the machinery to be installed therein proposed to be erected in said town by or for the Eyer Woolen Mill.”
I. It is claimed that the selectmen in making the assessment acted as agents of the town, and that as such agents their authority was limited by the exempting vote. Therefore, it is said, they possessed no authority to lay a tax…
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