Tricon, Inc. v. King County

As the above entitled cases present substantially identical issues on appeal, they have been consolidated for our review.

The plaintiff Tricon, Inc., brought suit in the Superior Court for King County to obtain a refund of an ad valorem tax assessed against certain personal property of the plaintiff and paid under protest. The plaintiff F. L. Hartung Glass Company, Inc., brought suit in the same court for injunctive relief to restrain the county assessor and treasurer from collecting an ad valorem tax assessed against certain property belonging to it. In both cases, judgment was awarded for…