Cameron v. City of Burlington
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Des Mornes Circuit Court. The plaintiff appeals from an order of the Circuit Court refusing to cancel a certain assessment made by the assessor of the city of Builington, Des Moines county. The plaintiff claims that the property is non-assessable in the city of Burlington. The property consists of promissory notes and be-l
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, Ch. J.
i taxation : erty :°personoFadminis-ds tiator. As the notes were not assessable in both places we have to determine in which they were assessable, ^ 110t chimed, nor could it properly be, that Burlington has any superior rights by reason of the fact that it is an incorporated city. The case, then, is not different from what it would have been if Sunderland had died elsewhere in the county, but not in Union township. We have, then, the question as to whether the fact that a person dies in a given township, leaving personal property, gives the assessor of such township the right to…
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