Turner v. Althaus
Nebraska Supreme Court
This was an action brought by Charlotte K. Turner, to restrain the city of Omaha from collecting taxes assessed upon the lands of the plaintiff, lying within the incorporate limits of the city of Omaha, but remote from the business or residence portion of said city, not subdivided into blocks and lots, and used exclusively for agricultural purposes. Also, to recover from said city certain of said taxes paid by the plaintiff.
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This was an action brought by Charlotte K. Turner, to restrain the city of Omaha from collecting taxes assessed upon the lands of the plaintiff, lying within the incorporate limits of the city of Omaha, but remote from the business or residence portion of said city, not subdivided into blocks and lots, and used exclusively for agricultural purposes. Also, to recover from said city certain of said taxes paid by the plaintiff. To the petition a general demurrer was interposed, which was overruled and a decree entered for the plaintiff. Defendants appeal. I. The decision of the court below was…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
The plaintiff alleges that she is the owner of twenty-four and three-fourths acres of land situate “ within the vnoorpdrate Limits of the city of Omaha that the same is not laid off into lots, and is unoccupied and unsettled upon, except for agricultural purposes. Earnham street passes along the south side of the land, and it is alleged that the same was so extended without the plaintiff’s consent and. against her protest. The petition contains two causes of action, and in the first it is complained that the land was assessed and taxed for general city purposes, for the year 1874, viz. :■ for…
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