Phillips v. City of Stevens' Point
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Portage County. The principal averments of the complaint are stated in the opinion, infra.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Portage County. The principal averments of the complaint are stated in the opinion, infra. It is also alleged that the amount illegally assessed upon the plaintiff, and collected by sale of his chattels, was $176.14 ; that the value of the chattels seized and sold was $400; that the same were sold for $175 ; that, of this sum, $8.31 was applied to the payment of the fees and charges of the officer who made the sale, and $166.69 to the payment of said illegal assessment ; that plaintiff “has been damaged in the premises in the sum of $400,” and asks for…
1Opinion of the Court
I)ixoN, C. J.
The complaint charges that the board of review, ‘ ‘ arbitrarily, and of their own motion, and Avithout any proof being furnished to said board,” *596raised tbe aggregate valuation of the personal property of the plaintiff, as the same had. been fixed and determined by the assessor, three thousand five hundred dollars. The complaint also shows that the plaintiff was compelled by distress and sale of property to pay the taxes on the sum thus added to the valuation. The statute prescribing the powers and duties of the board of review is sec. 25, chap. 130, Laws of 1868. It is obvious…
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