Robinson Land & Lumber Co. v. Roberson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Wayne county. Hon. J. D. Fatherree, Judge. Petition by Frank Roberson, Attorney General, for leave to appeal from a personal property assessment against Robinson Land & Lumber Company. From a judgment increasing respondent’s assessment, it appeals.
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Appeal from circuit court of Wayne county. Hon. J. D. Fatherree, Judge. Petition by Frank Roberson, Attorney General, for leave to appeal from a personal property assessment against Robinson Land & Lumber Company. From a judgment increasing respondent’s assessment, it appeals. The appellee her.ein bases his right to take this appeal from the assessment solely and alone by authority of the provisions of chapter 120 of the Laws of 1918. We respectfully submit that the attorney-general is without power or authority to prosecute any appeal at all, from any assessment which may have been made by…
1Opinion of the CourtHolden, J.
This suit involves the right of the attorney-general to appeal from assessments approved by the board of supervisors, and the respective rights of the state and the taxpayer at the trial on appeal.
The appellant herein, the Robinson Land & Lumber Company, is a corporation engaged in the sawmill business in Wayne county, Miss. During the year 1920 it duly rendered its lists of assessable personal property to the tax assessor of said county, and the board of supervisors of said county, at the regular time fixed by law, to-wit, at the August meeting, 1920, met for the purpose of hearing…
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