Boeing Aircraft Co. v. Reconstruction Finance Corp.

Plaintiff brought this action under the provisions of our uniform declaratory judgment act to determine the validity of taxes assessed against certain real property owned by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and used by plaintiff under lease which provided that plaintiff should pay all property taxes lawfully assessed or imposed upon real property. The cause, tried to the court, resulted in the entry of a judgment declaring the taxes to be invalid. King county and Carroll Carter, its treasurer, have appealed to this court.

The assignments of error call in question the action of the trial…