Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. Commissioners of Wyandotte County
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Wyandotte District Court. Injunction, brought by the K. P. Railway Company, against the Board of County Commissioners, and E. W. 8. Drought as sheriff, of Wyandotte county, to restrain the collection of alleged illegal taxes.
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Error from Wyandotte District Court. Injunction, brought by the K. P. Railway Company, against the Board of County Commissioners, and E. W. 8. Drought as sheriff, of Wyandotte county, to restrain the collection of alleged illegal taxes. The plaintiff’s petition stated, that on the first day of May 1874, plaintiff duly listed for taxation, all its rolling-stock and other personal property, as required by ch. 96, Laws of 1874, p. 147, and returned the same, with a' sworn schedule thereof, to the county clerk of said county; that the total length of the main track of plaintiff’s railroad in said…
1Opinion of the Court
*590The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
The first question in this case is, upon the construction to be given to the railroad tax-law of 1874. By the plaintiff in error it is claimed, that the valuation returned by the company is to be accepted as the proper valuation, subject to correction after notice, as provided in § 65 of the general tax-law, (Gen. Stat., p. 1041.) On the other hand it is claimed that the valuation is to be made by the city and township assessors. The question hinges in the first instance on the construction to be given to § 7, which reads as follows:
Sec. 7.…
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