Beadle County v. Board of County Commissioners

This is an appeal from a circuit court judgment affirming the actions of the defendant county board of equalization by the plaintiff Beadle county.

This proceeding was instituted in the circuit court by an appeal from the board of equalization of Beadle county by the state’s attorney in the name of the county on the written demand and petition of some 120 taxpayers of Beadle county under the provisions of part 2, § 5886, of the S. D. Revised: Code of 1919.

The plaintiff contends that the board of county commissioners, while acting as a county board of equalization, arbitrarily and without any…