State ex rel. Ellis v. Thorne
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Marinette county: S. D. Hastings, Jr., Circuit Judge. Proceedings were taken, under secs. 1077a, 10775, Stats. 1898, to review the action of the county board of Marinette county equalizing the assessed valuation of the property of the various taxing districts therein for the year 1897. A writ of certiorari was duly sued out of the proper circuit court to test the validity of such proceedings.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Marinette county: S. D. Hastings, Jr., Circuit Judge. Proceedings were taken, under secs. 1077a, 10775, Stats. 1898, to review the action of the county board of Marinette county equalizing the assessed valuation of the property of the various taxing districts therein for the year 1897. A writ of certiorari was duly sued out of the proper circuit court to test the validity of such proceedings. The petition for the writ contained, among other things, the following statements, in substance: The county board of Marinette county, on November 9, 1897,…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
This appeal turns on whether the statute of this state (sec. 1077a, Stats. 1898) is unconstitutional, providing for the appointment of commissioners by the circuit judge of any county, on petition as therein indicated, presented to such judge within one year after, the county assessment of property in any year, for the apportionment of *85county and state taxes pursuant to sec. 1073, to review such assessment and correct it if justice shall so require, their determination to be final, and the inequalities, if any, in the taxes apportioned on the unjust assessment to be corrected in the next…
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