Wohlford v. City of Escondido

Appeal from judgment on defendant’s demurrer to the complaint. The suit was brought by the plaintiff to recover the sum of thirty-eight cents taxes alleged to have been illegally collected from him and paid to the tax collector under protest. The defect in the assessment relied upon, as alleged in general terms, is: That the taxes for the fiscal year of 1904 were assessed to persons owning, or claiming to own, or in possession of property on the first day of May, and not to those owning, or claiming or in possession on the first Monday of March, 1904, and that plaintiff’s property was so…