Ballard v. Wooster

Holcomb, J. —

Ten cases in all were brought in King county involving substantially the same tax questions. It was stipulated by their attorneys and the attorneys for respondent, as county assessor of King county, that the two above entitled cases be consolidated for hearing, for the reason that they represent the two groups of cases involved in all the tax cases then pending in the lower court.

The first case, which we will refer to as the Ballard case, is typical of that group of cases where the matter was presented to the King county equalization board, and an appeal taken from that board to…