Ferguson v. Townsend

Lively, Judge:

Relators petition for mandamus against Townsend, State Tax Commissioner, to compel him to indorse his approval upon a deed of trust dated March 14, 1931, executed by Archer Milton Huntington and wife to relators, Ferguson and First National Bank, trustees, conveying to said trustees lands in the counties of Kanawha, Nicholas and Clay in this state for alleged educational and charitable purposes, so that said lands may be listed as exempt from taxation under the constitution, Article X, section 1, and under the provisions of chapter 11, article 3, section 9 of the Official Code…