Topeka Water Supply Co. v. Roberts

The opinion of the court was delivered by

JOHNSTON, J.:

Action of injunction. After the property of the Topeka Water Supply Company had been assessed for the year 1885, and the taxes thereon had been levied and paid, the county clerk of the county in which the property was situated, and in February, 1886, entered on the tax-roll, opposite the name of the company, the sum of $7,769, as an additional assessment of its capital stock for the year 1885, and charged taxes thereon to the amount of $268.03. A special agent, appointed by the county to look up property that had escaped taxation for the…