Burr v. City & Cty. of San Francisco

In the court below judgment was given in favor of the defendant, from which the plaintiff appeals.

The object of the plaintiff’s action was to recover of the city and county of San Francisco the sum of $462.60, paid as taxes upon the property of the plaintiff’s testator for the year 1914 undér protest, which tax, it is alleged, was unlawfully levied by the city, in violation of the provisions of section 11, chapter 1, of article III of the city charter, limiting the annual tax rate to one dollar on each one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of property.

Section 11 aforesaid provides…