Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Board of County Commissioners

The appellee sued to recover certain, taxes paid under protest. The court sustained a demurrer to the answer. From this ruling the county has appealed. The first cause of action is based upon the claim that in 1908 the county clerk raised the rate' of taxation for state purposes from .9 mill on the dollar to .925 mill on the dollar, resulting in appellee being obliged to pay an additional amount upon its property. The answer justified the action of the clerk on the ground that it became necessary to provide for the payment of state taxes which had become delinquent in former years. The…