State Ex Rel. Smith v. Haveland

Matson, Justice.

Consolidated for the purpose of appellate review, we have two appeals, one from an order sustaining respondent Haveland’s demurrer to relator’s amended petition for an alternative writ of mandamus, and the other from a judgment, entered pursuant to an order overruling relator’s demurrer to intervener’s complaint, which judgment quashed relator’s amended alternative writ of mandamus and dismissed the proceeding as to intervener.

In amendment of Mason St. 1927, §§ 2337 to 2349, the legislature enacted L. 1943, c. 596, § 2, providing for the exemption from taxation of $1,000 in…