Millbrook Farm v. Watson

As of the first Monday of March 1966, approximately 535 acres of plaintiff’s land, situated in an unsubdivided rural area and mostly unimproved, were assessed by defendant for tax purposes in two parcels. Upon refusal of defendant to assess plaintiff’s property in nine parcels, as requested and as it claims has been done by defendant and his predecessors for more than 40 years, plaintiff brought this action in mandamus to compel an assessment of such property in nine different parcels, separately assessed. From a judgment denying relief plaintiff appeals.

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