State v. Empanger

In proceedings in district court to enforce payment of taxes remaining delinquent on real estate in the town of Minnetonka, Hennepin county, on the first Monday in January, 1897, the defendant appeared and interposed an answer as to the lands in question, of which he was the owner. A trial was had by the court, and judgment ordered for defendant. The court then certified several questions, raised on the trial, to this court, for its determination, and of these we have to decide but one, which is: Did the state board of equalization have authority, under the law in force when it exercised such…