Kansas City v. Rochester Independent School Dist.

The appeal is from a judgment against appellant for taxes alleged to be due by it to the Rochester independent school district. The defense was that the assessment was void because alleged to have been made arbitrarily, and that the value of appellant's property as assessed was much greater than its actual value, and that the assessment was on a basis of value much higher than that at which property generally was assessed. There was a trial to a jury, and a special verdict was returned to the effect that appellant's road and appurtenances thereon, situated in said school district, were of the…