Oregon-Wisconsin Timber Co. v. Coos County
Oregon Supreme Court
From Coos: John S. Coke, Judge. This is a suit by the Oregon-Wisconsin Timber Holding Company, a corporation, against Coos County, Oregon; Eoad District No. 12, of Coos County, Oregon; James Watson, as County Clerk of Coos County, Oregon, and W. W. Cage, as Sheriff of Coos County, Oregon, in which plaintiff seeks to have Section 6391, L. O. L., declared void. There was a decree in the lower court for the defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
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From Coos: John S. Coke, Judge. This is a suit by the Oregon-Wisconsin Timber Holding Company, a corporation, against Coos County, Oregon; Eoad District No. 12, of Coos County, Oregon; James Watson, as County Clerk of Coos County, Oregon, and W. W. Cage, as Sheriff of Coos County, Oregon, in which plaintiff seeks to have Section 6391, L. O. L., declared void. There was a decree in the lower court for the defendants, and plaintiff appeals. The facts are set forth in the opinion of the court. Department 2.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McNary
The resident taxpayers of road district No. 12, Coos County, Oregon, on November 6, 1912, voted a special tax of ten mills on the dollar, upon all the taxable real *464and personal property within the district, for the purpose of assuring a fund of- money with which to defray the expenses of the improvement of a well-known road in the district. The .plaintiff is a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Wisconsin, and owner of a section of land in the district, and as such proprietor complains bitterly at the action of the taxpayers in voting the tax upon its property, and in this…
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