Town of Bristol v. Bristol Railroad
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit to recover taxes assessed by the plaintiff town upon three separate pieces of real estate owned by defendant. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1915, Addison County, Slack, J., presiding. Verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The case is stated in the opinion.
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Assumpsit to recover taxes assessed by the plaintiff town upon three separate pieces of real estate owned by defendant. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1915, Addison County, Slack, J., presiding. Verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The case is stated in the opinion. The phrase “property used for railroad business or purposes,” used in Sec. 1, No. 51, Acts 1912, providing for the taxation of such property by the state, means such property as is reasonably convenient to the business of serving the public as a common carrier, not only such as is…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
Assumpsit for taxes. The defendant is a common carrier operating a railroad between Bristol and New Haven Junction. It owns in Bristol three separate pieces of real estate, referred to as the storehouse, the tenement house and the stable. More or less land belongs to each, and the question is whether this property is taxable under No. 29, Acts of 1908.
The storehouse is a three story building situated on the south side of and adjacent to the defendant’s side track. Merchandise is loaded to or from the ears through a large door on north side of the ground floor, — a “gang-plank” being used…
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