Wilcox v. Ellis
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Butler District Court. Injunction, brought by Wilcox, to restrain Ellis, as county treasurer, from collecting the tax levied on $6,000 assessed as personal property.
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Error from Butler District Court. Injunction, brought by Wilcox, to restrain Ellis, as county treasurer, from collecting the tax levied on $6,000 assessed as personal property. The agreed statement of facts shows that Wilcox had been a resident of Plum Grove township, in Butler county, for five years previously, and was such resident on the 1st of March 1872; that he listed under oath and returned to the proper assessor his personal property for that year, shortly after the first of March, and that afterward the county clerk increased the amount of Wilcox’s personal property $6,000. Wilcox…
1Opinion of the Court
*601The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
1. Assessment and taxation. Lands sold conditionally unpaid purcahse-mony. *6032 in case of abolute sale and converyance *601The only question involved in this case is, whether the plaintiff Wilcox is liable to pay taxes on certain supposed personal property which he is supposed to own and possess in this state. The facts of the case are substantially as follows: “In the year 1868 the plaintiff agreed in writing to sell certain real estate he then possessed in the state of Illinois, to one Daniel Lovatt, for a price agreed upon between them, and…
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