Dolphin v. Board of Review

The appellant, Harold Dolphin, challenged his real estate tax assessment before the Board of Review of the Village of Butler in Waukesha county. The sole issue on appeal here is whether the board acted on competent evidence within its jurisdiction when it affirmed 1 the assessment placed on the appellant’s residential property when such evidence consisted solely of statements made by the village assessor at an executive session of the board without the presence of the appellant. We conclude it was jurisdictional error for the board to act on this incompetent evidence. We reverse the judgment…