Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-02-27

e''l''t I'VE GOuHlleS or ellncr oil their
Deputies GREETING:
We command you to attach the goods
or estate or Edward r. Russell & Co.
me a corporation duly organized and
EXISTING under the laws Of the state of
MasSachusetts and located at Boston.
m tine county OF Suffolk in said state
OF Massachusetts, to the value Of three
hundred dollars: and summon the said
defendant (if he may be found in your
preclnct) to appear before our justice
OF (hG supreme judicial court next to
be holden i'm 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
u1ah|lantS Of the town of GOuldSborO
"a municipal corporation, in the County
Of Hancock and state Of Maine.
in q plea of debt, for that the said
defendant on the first day of April A
- I322, was the owner and in posses
SION OF personal property situated in
said town of Gouldsboro, liable to taxa
ton therein, and then and there Allen
,. kingsley, John NoOnan and Henry
G. Wood, We're the duly elected and
legally qualified assessors of the said
town Of GOuldsboro, and the said as
5Iaa', ana 6, duly and legally assess
upon the SAID personal property of the
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 it's, the defendants personal
property the sum of one hundred
twenty dollars and forty cents
($120.40), and the said assessors there
afterwards, to wit; on the sixth day of
June, a. j. 1922, did make a perfect
list thereof and of all taxes of said
town under their hands and did com
init the same to w. l.. Tracy, who was
then and there the duly elected and
qualified collector of taxes of the said
town, with a warrant of that date i'm
, 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, 1922, it was voted
that all taxes for personal property
should be due and bear interest after
January, 1923.
And the plaintiff AYERS further that
the payment of said taxes was duly de-
manded of said defendant by said COL
lector and payment refused prior to the
commencement of this suit; and that
suit, to wit. on the sixth day of Janu-
airy A. ID. 1928. the selectmen of said
town of Gouldsboro did in writing di-
rect an action of debt for said tax to
be commenced against said defendant,
in the name of the inhabitants of said
! town, WEu. hJ- al by reason nH tn e
statute in such case made and provided
an action has accrued to the plaintiffs
| to have to and to recover OF the said
defendant the sum of one hundred
/ twenty dollars and forty cents
! ($12040) with interest thereon from
the first day of January, a. ID. 1928.
Yet though often requested, the said
/ defendant has not paid said sum but
| negleCts so to do to the damage of said
/ plaintiff Gas it says) 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
second day of February in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and twenty -four,
II. F. MAHONEY, Clerk.