Yawkey-Bissell Corp. v. Town of Langlade

The evidence on the trial established the following facts. The plaintiff, Yawkey-Bissell Corporation, on April 1, 1946, purchased at the price of $1.13 per acre, fourteen thousand acres of cutover land in the town of Lang-lade. There was some second-growth timber on some of the forty-acre descriptions. None of them are entirely worthless but between twenty-five per cent and thirty per cent of the acreage is worthless. The town assessor, Edwin Hoffman, assessed each one of the forty-acre tracts at $150 regardless of the relative value of one forty-acre description as compared with another.…