People v. Hancock
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Eighteenth Judicial District, San Bernardino County. Action to recover a tax levied on an assessment of the Muscupiable Bancho, in San Bernardino County. The xancho contained twenty-four thousand six hundred and .fifty-six acres, and the entire ranch, as a whole, was assessed at twenty-four thousand six hundred and fifty-six -dollars.
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Appeal from the District Court, Eighteenth Judicial District, San Bernardino County. Action to recover a tax levied on an assessment of the Muscupiable Bancho, in San Bernardino County. The xancho contained twenty-four thousand six hundred and .fifty-six acres, and the entire ranch, as a whole, was assessed at twenty-four thousand six hundred and fifty-six -dollars. Two years before the assessment, the defendants, Hancock and Hays, had sold to A. J. Pope seven thousand four hundred and seventy - nine acres of the rancho by metes and bounds, leaving the defendants only seventeen thousand one…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, McKinstry, J.:
The defendants answered and proved that a tract of land containing nearly one third of the larger tract described in the assessment had been by them sold and conveyed by deed, duly recorded, two years before the assessment was made. The Court below found that the assessment contained no data from whjfeh could be estimated what sum should be paid by the defendants, and properly gave judgment for the defendants.
Judgment affirmed.
Neither Mr. Justice Crockett nor Mr. justice Rhodes expressed an opinion.
2Cited by1 opinion
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