State v. Wiley

— -The basic facts in this case are identical with the facts in the case of State ex rel. Showalter v. Cook, 175 Wash. 364, 27 P. (2d) 1075.

Defendant Wiley is assessor of Grays Iiarbor county. Pursuant to Rem. Rev. Stat., § 11220, he forwarded to the state board of equalization an abstract of the assessment roll for Grays Harbor county, which showed the assessed valuation of all the property in the county to be $23,483,853. The state board of equalization found this to be only forty-one per cent of the true and fair valuation of the taxable property in the county. Accordingly, the state board…