Case ID: root_1/html/0533-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Kingsbury v. Selectmen of Tolland; in which Town is but one Ecclesiastical Society.
    A society have right to tax the inhabitants for building a steeple to their meeting-house by a major vote.
    ActioN for taxing him illegally towards building a steeple to tbe meeting-house, whereby bis ox was distrained, etc. Plea — Not guilty. Issue to the jury.
    
      Tbe facts were agreed, and tbe grounds upon wbicb tbe plaintiff claimed to recover, were in tbe first place — Tbat tbe building of a steeple to a meeting-bouse was not a matter for wbicb a society, by law, bad right to tax its inhabitants-. 2d. If it bad, tbe law required it should be by two-thirds of tbe voters; and tbat tbe vote in this case was by a majority only.
    Verdict for tbe defendants.
   By the Court.

Tbe building of a steeple toi tbe meetinghouse is a matter for wbicb an ecclesiastical society bath right to tax its inhabitants by a major vote; and tbe law does not require two-thirds of tbe voters to give it validity.