State v. Cook

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Depue, J.

This writ brings up an assessment of taxes, for the year 1895, on a mine of iron ore belonging to the prosecutors, situate in the township of Jefferson.

The tax was assessed on a valuation of $62,500. Mr. Chamberlain, the assessor by whom the assessment of taxes was made, testified that he placed the valuation of $62,500 on the mine from what it produced; that the production of *71the mine for the year 1895 was over twenty-one thousand tons of ore, on which the royalty paid exceeded $13,000. He also testified that he had no other reason for…