Breeze v. Haley
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from District Court, Clear Creek County. This is an action brought by Ora Haley against Breeze, as treasurer of Boutt county, to enjoin him from-the collection of certain taxes assessed against the property of Haley.
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Appeal from District Court, Clear Creek County. This is an action brought by Ora Haley against Breeze, as treasurer of Boutt county, to enjoin him from-the collection of certain taxes assessed against the property of Haley. By his complaint Haley admits that he failed to make out and return a list of his property for taxation for the year 1884, and alleges that the assessor of the county called on his foreman in charge of his property for a list and return some time in May, but refused to wait until the foreman could make the same; but immediately made out and returned a list of his property,…
1Opinion of the Court
Stallcup, C.
The injunction proceedings of the plaintiff cannot be maintained. He has shown no equity to warrant the same. He had a plain, adequate remedy for the correction of any errors in the enlistment and assessment of his property for the year 1884, by application to the board of county commissioners, sitting as a board of equalization, in July. People v. Lothrop, 3 Colo. 465; Price. v Kramer, 4 Colo. 546; State Railroad Tax Case, 92 U. S. 575; Cooley, Tax’n, 536.
He has had, and still has, a plain, adequate remedy for any wrong that may have been done to him in the listing and assessing…
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