Suburban Transportation System v. King County

The plaintiff, Transportation System, commenced this action in the superior court for King county, seeking recovery from that county of an alleged excess of personal property taxes exacted from it by the county authorities, which excess it claims to have paid under coercion and protest. The county’s demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint was, by the superior court, sustained. The plaintiff elected to stand upon its complaint and not plead further. Pinal judgment of dismissal was, by the court, accordingly rendered against the plaintiff, from which it has appealed to this court.

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