Richland Irrigation District v. De Bow

The plaintiff, an irrigation district, brought this action to prohibit the subjecting of property which it owns within the district to general taxation. To the complaint, a demurrer was interposed and sustained. The plaintiff refused to plead further and elected to stand upon its complaint. Judgment was entered dismissing the action, from which the plaintiff appeals.

This is a companion case to that of Columbia Irrigation District v. Benton County, ante p. 234, 270 Pac. 813, just decided, so far as the questions involved in that case are concerned. There is, however, in this case one…