Goodsell v. Spokane County

— The question in this case may be stated thus: Where various articles of personal property, of unequal value, have been assessed to A, as owner, for taxation purposes, the assessment and valuation being made of the property as a whole or in bulk, and tax has been levied thereon and thereafter a part of the property is sold to B, and A does not pay any portion of the tax, can the whole thereof be made out of the part of the property owned and held by B at the time of dis-traint?

The complaint alleged that one Hampton had been operating a gasoline station in the city of Spokane and, in…