Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. State Board of Equalization & Assessment

The state board of equalization and assessment, hereinafter called the board, was created under section 5898, Comp. St. 1922, and consists, ex officio, of four elective state officers, namely, the governer, the secretary of state, the state auditor, and the state treasurer, and also the tax commissioner. August 2, 1929, at a meeting of the board, an order was executed increasing the assessed valuation of all telephone properties throughout the state, in the sum of 20 per cent., as stated, for the year 1929, as reported by the abstracts of assessed property in the several counties. Thereupon,…