Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Johnson County

The relief sought is a reduction, for the purposes of taxation, in the valuation of plaintiff’s personal property in Johnson county. In the year 1915 the property was valued at $172,225. Conceding that to be the actual value for the purposes of this proceeding, plaintiff asked the county board of equalization to reduce it to 75 per cent, of its actual value.- This demand for a reduction is based on the plea that taxing-officers in Johnson county and in the state at large conform to an established custom to value property generally for the purposes of taxation at 75 per cent, of its actual…