Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Co. v. Town of Wolf River

It was contended by respondents in the court below, and again here, that the complaint on its face failed to show the filing of a proper claim with the town board, a condition precedent to any such relief as here asked; and th^Lt the language quoted above, alleging that the additional reassessment, amounting to' over $31,000, was made by defendant Tax Commission “without there being any evidence before it on which to base any additional assessment,” was a mere conclusion of the pleader rather than a pleading of a fact, and that in any event it is so contradicted or modified by the other…