Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Walla Walla County
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Walla Walla county, Mills, J., entered November 4, 1920, upon sustaining demurrers to the complaint, dismissing an action to recover a tax paid under protest.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The plaintiff railway company commenced this action in the superior court for Walla Walla county, seeking recovery of the sum of $230.87, *685claimed to have been unlawfully exacted from it- by the officers of the defendants county and irrigation district as an assessment upon certain lands owned by it, for the expense of operating and maintaining the irrigation system of the defendant district; which sum was paid by the railway company under protest for the purpose of preventing the casting of a cloud upon its title to the land in the form of a sale thereof in satisfaction of the claimed lien of…
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