Benn v. County of Chehalis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoyt, C. J.

It was alleged in the complaint in this action that the plaintiff was the owner of several hundred lots or parcels of land situated in Chehalis county; that the same had been listed on the tax rolls of said county for the year 1893, and had been valued by the. assessor without his having viewed the same as required by the statute; that the valuation placed upon each of said pieces of property was double the actual value thereof at the time to which such valuation related; that by reason of such illegal valuation, taxes had been assessed…