Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Teton Valley Ranch v. State Board of Equalization

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided April 3, 1987No. 86-185Published

1ConcurrenceUrbigkit, Justice

Value in empirical terms is an intangible product of time and place: willing seller— available buyer. Without buyer, there is no marketable value. 1 Bonbright, Valuation of Property (1st ed.) at 59.1 Any statistical comparison of Wyoming real estate time-distinguished values between 1982 and the present would reveal a market decrease which may total 50 percent overall. The specificity of economics cannot be mathematically converted into taxation assessment standards, Bonbright, supra, Ch. XVIII, Valuation for Tax Purposes: The General Property Tax, and is not within the uniformity, equality…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. City of Arlington v. CannonTexas Supreme Court · 1954
  2. Bunten v. Rock Springs Grazing Ass'nWyoming Supreme Court · 1923
  3. Golder v. Department of Revenue, State Board of Tax AppealsArizona Supreme Court · 1979
  4. City & County of Denver v. LewinSupreme Court of Colorado · 1940
  5. J. Ray McDermott & Co. v. HudsonWyoming Supreme Court · 1962

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