Spensley v. Valentine
Wisconsin Supreme Court
CERTIORARI to the Board of Review of the City of Janes-ville. This is a certiorari to remove into this court the proceedings of the board of review of the city of Janesville in the matter of •the assessment for taxation, in the year 1873, of certain lots of the plaintiff in error, situated therein. Eor satisfactory reasons, the writ was allowed to be issued from this court.
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CERTIORARI to the Board of Review of the City of Janes-ville. This is a certiorari to remove into this court the proceedings of the board of review of the city of Janesville in the matter of •the assessment for taxation, in the year 1873, of certain lots of the plaintiff in error, situated therein. Eor satisfactory reasons, the writ was allowed to be issued from this court. The lots in question are lots 147, 148 and 149 in Miltimore’s addition to said city, according to the recorded plat thereof, and the same were conveyed to the plaintiff in error by A. Hyatt Smith and his wife, and one…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
The testimony satisfactorily shows that the lots of the plaintiff in error, and the water power or right granted to him therewith, are worth the sums at which the lots, were valued by the board of review. On the other hand, it is- undisputed that, excluding such water right, the lots are not worth to exceed one-fifteenth of the Valuation placed upon them by the board.
If such water right is merely a personal one — if it be only a right or an easement in gross — the value of it has been illegally included in the valuation of the lots by the board of review, and such valuation is, in that event,…
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