Butte Electric Railway Co. v. McIntyre

This action was instituted to recover taxes paid under protest. A general demurrer to the complaint was overruled, and •the defendant, declining to plead further, suffered judgment to be entered against him, and appealed therefrom.

In paragraphs 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the complaint it is alleged that the county assessor of Silver Bow county arbitrarily classified plaintiff’s property under class 7, giving it a taxable value of $90,020, whereas it should have been assigned to class 2, with a taxable value of $45,010; that plaintiff applied to the county board of equalization for a reclassification,…