Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-02-13

HANCOCK ss.-To the Sheriffs of our
respective Counties or either of their
Deputies, GREETING
| goods or estate of e. T. Russell &
| Company, corporation organized and
| existing by law and having an estab-
| lished place of business in Prospect
| Harbor, in the town of Gouldsboro, in
| the County of Hancock, and State of
| Maine, to the value of three hundred
| dollars; and summon the said de-
| PENDANT Gf ii may be found in your
precinct to appear before our justice
of the supreme judicial court, next to
! be, holden in Ellsworth within and for
our County of Hancock, on the fourth
| Tuesday of April next, then and there
| in our said court to answer unto the
inhabitants of the town of Gouldsboro,
municipal corporation, in the County
of Hancock and State of Maine.
In plea of debt, for that the said
defendant on the first day of April, A.
ID. 1921, was the owner and in posses
sion of personal property situated in
said town of Gouldsboro, liable to
taxation therein. and then and there
Allen S. Kingsley, Eric &c. Soderholtz
and Carl e. Peters We're the duly
of said town of Gouldsboro, and the
said assessors did duly and legally as
sess upon the said personal property of
said defendant as it's proportion of the
town taxes and it's due proportion of
the state and county taxes allotted to
said town of Gouldsboro for the year
then current the following sum to wit;
upon its, the defendants personal
thirty five dollars and twenty nine
cents ($135.29) and the said assessors
thereafterWards, to wit, on the sixth
day of June, a. D. 1921, did make a
perfect list thereof and of all the
taxes of said town under their hands,
and did commit the same to w. L.
Tracy who, was then and there duly
elected and qualified as collector of
taxes of the said town, with warrant
of that date in due form of law under
the hands of said assessors
And the plaintiff AYERS that at the
annual meeting of said town held in
March, 1921, it was voted that all
taxes for personal property should be
due and bear interest after January
1922. And the plaintiff further AYERS
that the payment of said tax was duly
demanded of said defendant by said
collector and payment refused prior to
the commencement of this suit; and
this suit, to wit, on the fifth day of
January A. d. 1922, the selectmen of
said town of Gouldsboro did in writing
direct an action of debt for said tax
to be commenced against said de-
PENDANT in the name of the inhabitants
eff said town; whereby, and by reason
of the statute in such case made and
provided an action has accrued to the
plaintiffs to have and recover of the
said defendant the sum of one hundred
and thirty five dollars and twenty
ulHe Genus l9ioo; 80, WIN Interest
thereon from the first day of January,
A. D. 1922.
Yet though often requested, the said
defendant has not paid said sum, but
neglects so to do to the damage of
said plaintiff cas- it saysl the sum of
three hundred dollars, which shall then
and there be made to appear with other
due damages. And have you there this
writ with your doings therein.
Witness, LUERE B. DEASY, justice
of said court, at Ellsworth, this
twenty third day of March in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and twenty-two
7. F. MAHoNEY, Clerk