Case v. San Juan County
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for San Juan county, Joiner, J., entered November 6, 1909, upon findings in favor of the defendants, in an action to abate an assessment and cancel a tax on real property, after a trial on the merits before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtRudkin, C. J.
The plaintiffs John H. McGraw and George B. Kittinger, copartners under the firm name of McGraw & Kittinger, are the owners of 275 92-100 acres of wild unimproved land in San Juan county, the title to which stands in the individual names of the several plaintiffs, in trust for the copartnership. During the year 1908 the assessor of San Juan county assessed all property in his county at forty per cent of its actual cash value, for the purpose of taxation, and fixed the actual cash value of the property in question at approximately $50,000, or the assessed value at $19,675. The plaintiffs,…
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