Titlow v. Pierce County
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Fletcher, J., entered April 3, 1919, dismissing an action to cancel a tax, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMackintosh, J.
The appellants were the owners of 1,125 lots in outlying platted additions in Pierce county, and this action was begun for the purpose of cancelling and setting aside taxes thereon for the year 1917.
In the month of July, 1917, Pierce county began an action seeking to condemn these lots for the purpose of an army post site, and in the condemnation suit the jury returned a verdict in the sum of $1,568 as the fair cash market value of the property. This sum *634was paid into the clerk’s office of Pierce county, and the county treasurer asserted a claim against the funds in the sum of $208.58 for…
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