Staples v. State

Thomas Gallagher, Justice.

These proceedings arise out of a petition by Loring M. Staples for a review of the classification and assessment for purposes of the 1948 real estate taxes on certain real property constituting his homestead situated in the town of Minnetrista near Lake Minnetonka in Hennepin county. Judgment was entered in the district court of Hennepin county upholding the classification of the property by the township assessor as nonrural and non-agricultural and its assessment on that basis.

It is petitioner’s contention that this real estate is rural in character and devoted or…