State v. C. P. R. R. Co.

The facts are stated in the opinion. This action was brought by the state of Nevada to recover from the defendant a certain amount alleged to be due upon lands situate in Washoe county, under the state and county assessment, for taxes in the year 1887. There was assessed to the defendant for that year one hundred and forty thousand five hundred and fifty acres of lands, valued at the sum of seventy thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. The complaint is in the form prescribed by the statute. The answer contains four defenses. To this answer plaintiff demurred on the grounds that the…