Drey v. State Tax Commission

HOUSER, Commissioner.

Here for review is the action of the Circuit Court of Shannon County dismissing an aggrieved taxpayer’s appeals and affirming the orders of the State Tax Commission upholding real property tax assessments for the years 1957, 1958 and 1959 upon 88,725 acres of wild timberland located in Shannon County. In each of those three years taxpayer Leo A. Drey appealed the assessment to the Shannon County Board of Equalization. In each year the board denied a reduction and the taxpayer petitioned the commission for a review of the assessment. The commission refused to hear and…