Williams v. Baldridge

— Appellants, property owners and taxpayers of Gooding county, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, sought to enjoin respondents from allowing the Idaho Power Company an exemption from taxation under C. S., see. 3099, as amended by chap. 106, 1921 Sess. Laws, sec. 15, p. 245, and C. S., sec. 3099A, on the ground that said statutes are in violation of secs. 2, 5, 7 and 8 of art. 7 and sec. 13 of art. 1 of the Idaho Constitution, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Bespondents filed no briefs and the defense of the statutes has been…