Harvey v. Town of Townsend
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Broadwater County, in the Fourteenth Judicial District; R. Lee Word, a Judge for the First District, presiding. Action by W. W. Harvey, against the Town of Townsend, a municipal corporation, and B. Williams, Treasurer of Broad-water County. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holloway
In 1913 the town council of the town of Townsend assumed to create special improvement district No. 7 for the purpose of constructing cement sidewalks, curbing, culverts, and doing the necessary grading in the district, and thereafter assumed to levy a tax upon the property in the district to p^y for the work which was then completed. Plaintiff, the owner of real estate within the district, paid under protest his tax demanded in 1914, and within sixty days thereafter commenced this action to recover it back and to have the entire tax, in so far as it affected his property, declared to be…
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