Legal Opinion

Douglas Land Co. v. Clatsop County

Oregon Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1918PublishedCited by 6 opinions

From Clatsop: Jambs A. Eakin, Judge. Statement by Mb. Justice MoCamant. In September, 1915, Douglas Land Company filed a petition with the board of equalization for Clatsop County praying for a reduction in the assessment of its properties for the year 1915. The properties consist of several hundred lots in sixteen platted subdivisions of the county and four hundred and eighty acres of land in township 4 north of range 9 west of the Willamette Meridian.

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From Clatsop: Jambs A. Eakin, Judge. Statement by Mb. Justice MoCamant. In September, 1915, Douglas Land Company filed a petition with the board of equalization for Clatsop County praying for a reduction in the assessment of its properties for the year 1915. The properties consist of several hundred lots in sixteen platted subdivisions of the county and four hundred and eighty acres of land in township 4 north of range 9 west of the Willamette Meridian. The asséssor had appraised the lots in five of these additions at $1 a lot; in four of them at $2; in two of them at $3; in one addition at…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice McCamant

This is a proceeding brought under the authority of Section 3613, L. O. L., as amended in 1913; see the *464Session Laws for that year, pages 329, 330. The salient portion of the statute has been recently quoted by Mr. Justice Bean in his opinion In re Weyerhaeuser Land Co., 85 Or. 434 (165 Pac. 1164, 1167), and it is not necessary to set it up here. It provides that a taxpayer aggrieved by the assessment of his property and who is denied relief by the board of equalization,, may appeal to the Circuit Court. The question to be determined is whether the assessment conforms to the actual cash value…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Weyerhaeuser Land Co. v. Board of EqualizationOregon Supreme Court · 1917
  2. Wichita Falls & N. W. Ry. Co. v. HollomanSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1911
  3. Northern Pac. Ry. Co. v. Clatsop CountyOregon Supreme Court · 1915

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Appeal of KliksOregon Supreme Court · 1937
  2. Case v. ChambersOregon Supreme Court · 1957
  3. J. R. Widmer, Inc. v. Department of RevenueOregon Supreme Court · 1972
  4. West House, Inc. v. State Tax CommissionOregon Supreme Court · 1961
  5. Smith Securities Co. v. Multnomah CountyOregon Supreme Court · 1920

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