Brown v. Shupe

WILLIAM A. LEE, J.,

Dissenting. — I cannot concur in either of the majority opinions', and believe the views expressed are in conflict with the law as it has been frequently announced by this court and which has become a rule of property right and should not now be changed.

The original irrigation district law, Sess. Laws 1895, p. 183, provided a system for taxing the property of an irrigation district to raise revenue for all purposes for which a district was authorized to tax property in a manner very similar to that provided for raising revenue by general taxation. It was required to elect…