Eppley Hotels Co. v. City of Lincoln

Plaintiff appealed because unsuccessful in an effort to enjoin the city of Lincoln from collecting real estate taxes for 1931 to 1936, inclusive, upon lands occupied by the Lincoln Hotel and the Capital Hotel. It claimed (1) that the assessments were void because not made by a person legally authorized, in that the statutes specifically provide for the election of an assessing officer by the people in a city of the population of Lincoln and none was so elected; and (2) that the statutes specifically prohibit a city of the population of Lincoln from levying more than $365,000 a year on all…