Single v. Town of Stettin
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Marathon County. This action was brought to set aside the assessment for taxation of plaintiff’s lands in the defendant town, in 1878, and to enjoin the collection of the tax out of his personal property, or the return of the land to the county treasurer as delinquent. ' The court found certain facts, which are stated in the opinion, and held that the assessment of plaintiff’s land; and of all the other property, real and personal, in said…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Marathon County. This action was brought to set aside the assessment for taxation of plaintiff’s lands in the defendant town, in 1878, and to enjoin the collection of the tax out of his personal property, or the return of the land to the county treasurer as delinquent. ' The court found certain facts, which are stated in the opinion, and held that the assessment of plaintiff’s land; and of all the other property, real and personal, in said town, in 1878, was illegal and void; that the taxes assessed on plaintiff’s land pursuant to such assessment were void;…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
In this case the court below, among other things, found these facts established by the evidence: That the assessor for the year 1878 intentionally, knowingly and fraudulently assessed the property in the defendant town, both real and personal, very much below its cash value, and at a less price than the owners would have been willing to take for the same, had they been desirous of selling — that is to say, upon a basis of from one-third to one-half of its actual value; that the assessment so made upon that basis was not accidental and occasional, but general; that the lands of the plaintiff,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Flanders v. Town of MerrimackWisconsin Supreme Court · 1880
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