Great Northern Ry. Co. v. Okanogan County

RUDKIN, District Judge.

For some years last part the Great Northern Railway Company has been the owner of a railroad right of way extending from the town of Pateros to the town of Oroville, in Okanogan county, a distance of approximately 74 miles, upon which a railroad grade consisting of cuts and fills was constructed and completed prior to the 1st day of March, 1912. For the year 1912 the county assessor of Okanogan county fixed the value of this right of way, for purposes of taxation, at $1 per lineal foot, or $5,280 per mile. But, while the assessed value was as above stated, the true and…