Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Pierce County

The purpose of this suit was to secure a reduction of taxes for the years 1921 and 1922, on large tracts of alleged coal lands, located in townships 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19, all north of range 6, east, in Pierce county. The trial court refused to give plaintiffs any relief, and they have appealed from a judgment dismissing their action. The testimony consists of several thousand pages, and a great many exhibits. To discuss it in detail would extend this opinion to an inordinate length. We can do little more than state the conclusions to which we have arrived.

Similar actions have heretofore been…