Leffingwell v. Lane County
Oregon Supreme Court
From Lane: Lawrence T. Harris, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. The plaintiff, Madalon Leffingwell, is the owner in fee simple of a quarter section of vacant land in road district No. 2 of Lane County, Oregon, and brings this suit against the county, the county judge, the commissioners, and sheriff to quiet her title against any claim by the defendants in their official capacity in the enforcement of a tax, the levy of which is said to have been attempted by the…
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From Lane: Lawrence T. Harris, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. The plaintiff, Madalon Leffingwell, is the owner in fee simple of a quarter section of vacant land in road district No. 2 of Lane County, Oregon, and brings this suit against the county, the county judge, the commissioners, and sheriff to quiet her title against any claim by the defendants in their official capacity in the enforcement of a tax, the levy of which is said to have been attempted by the taxpayers of said district in December, 1910. She avers payment by her in full prior to the commencement of this suit of all…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burnett
1. In 1903 the legislative assembly passed an act on the subject of roads and highways designed to supersede all previous legislation on that subject. Laws 1903, p. 262. Section 34 of that act compiled as Section 6320, L. O. L., empowered the county court to levy a tax of *147not exceeding 10 mills on the dollar on all taxable property of the county at the time of making the annual tax levy on the previous year’s assessment which should be set aside as a general road fund, one-half to be apportioned among the several road districts according to the amount of taxable property in each and the…
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