Boorman v. Juneau County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Juneau County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Gassoday : This action was commenced in April, 1889, to restrain the defendant county and its treasurer from the sale of the plaintiff’s lands described for the nonpayment of taxes assessed thereon in the year 1888, and to have the same declared illegal and void, and to remove the same as a cloud on the title.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Juneau County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Gassoday : This action was commenced in April, 1889, to restrain the defendant county and its treasurer from the sale of the plaintiff’s lands described for the nonpayment of taxes assessed thereon in the year 1888, and to have the same declared illegal and void, and to remove the same as a cloud on the title. The cause of action alleged is, in effect, that the assessor, for the purpose of throwing an undue amount of the taxes upon the plaintiff and other nonresident owners of…
1Opinion of the CourtOassoday, J.
The lands in question had been chiefly valuable for the timber standing upon them. Prior to 1888 they had been assessed as such timbered lands. Just before the time for the assessment for that year the timber had been removed from the lands. This is alleged to have been unknown at the time to the assessor, and hence that his assessment thereof was at the same valuation as in previous years. The statute required the assessment to be made by the assessor either from actual view or from the best information that he could practicably obtain, at the full value which could ordinarily be obtained…
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