Kinnear v. King County

—Appellants instituted this action for the purpose of obtaining relief from an alleged excessive valuation for taxation purposes ‘placed upon certain real property owned by them in the city of Seattle for the year 1920. They allege that, in the year 1920, the taxing officials of King county, disregarding their official duty, made for assessment purposes an arbitrary valuation of the property, actuated by an alleged necessity of raising a given amount of revenue, and in doing so valued the property of appellants at two or three times the valuation permitted by statute. Appellants made a tender…