State v. Board of County Commissioners
Nevada Supreme Court
Certiorari from the Supreme Court to the Board of County Commissioners of Washoe County, sitting as the Board of Equalization of that county. The valuation of the property of-the Central Pacific Railroad Company in Washoe County, made September 9th, 1869, by William Thompson, County Assessor, was one million, two hundred and three thousand, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars.
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Certiorari from the Supreme Court to the Board of County Commissioners of Washoe County, sitting as the Board of Equalization of that county. The valuation of the property of-the Central Pacific Railroad Company in Washoe County, made September 9th, 1869, by William Thompson, County Assessor, was one million, two hundred and three thousand, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars. The statement of John Corning fixed it at four hundred and seventy-five thousand, two hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifteen cents. The Board of Equalization reduced it to six hundred and fifty-six thousand three…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Whitman, J.:
On the first of October last the Board of County Commissioners of Washoe County, sitting and acting as a Board of Equalization, reduced the assessment for the present fiscal year of the Central ^Pacific Railroad Company of California, a corporation having a certain portion of its road and property in this State and the County aforesaid. Application being made to this Court for a writ of certiorari, the same was issued, and thereupon certain papers and minutes have been certified up, upon which decision is to be made.
No dispute exists between the contesting parties as…
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