Board of Education v. State Board of Assessors

This is an application for a mandamus. It sets out, in substance, that the State board of assessors, in levying the tax upon the railroad property of this State, has assumed to fix the rate of taxation by dividing the total tax levy on all property other than railroad property by the value of such other property as determined by the defendant board by adding to the actual assessed value of such property as fixed by the local assessors and by the board of State tax commissioners, acting under the authority of the law relating to the assessment of taxes, the sum of $296,748,142, thus making the…