Ross v. Comm'rs of Crawford County
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Crawford District Court. Proceedings to discover taxable property which the owner refused to list. The record of such proceedings is as follows: County Clerk’s Oeeice, Girard, July 18th, 1874. On this 18th of July personally appeared before me at my office in Girard, Crawford county, R. E. Carlton, township trustee, and informed me that one Melvin R. Ross of Baker township in said county of Crawford, did not list the true amount of his personal property, and that…
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Error from Crawford District Court. Proceedings to discover taxable property which the owner refused to list. The record of such proceedings is as follows: County Clerk’s Oeeice, Girard, July 18th, 1874. On this 18th of July personally appeared before me at my office in Girard, Crawford county, R. E. Carlton, township trustee, and informed me that one Melvin R. Ross of Baker township in said county of Crawford, did not list the true amount of his personal property, and that he believes that he has about fifty hogs, whereas he the said Ross only listed three; also, he believes he has a large…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
The proceedings in this case were had under §§ 65, 66 and 67 of the Tax Law, (Gen. Stat., page 1041.) Ross was cited to appear before the county clerk for failing to return all his personal property for assessment. He appeared, an inquiry was had, testimony heard, and the county clerk found that he had omitted from his return considerable property, and ordered that it be corrected. The case was taken on error to the district court, which affirmed the decision of the county clerk, and it comes to us on error from the district court.
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