Ray v. Miller

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The question in this case is one of fact. Was an application for appointment to office under the veteran’s preference law rejected in bad faith?

*844The office in question is that of county assessor of Harper county, under the tax law recently enacted.. By that law it was hoped to eradicate the chief evils- and abuses which had brought discredit upon the-former system of assessing property for taxation. To> carry out the beneficent purposes of the law much depends upon the county assessor, and competency for the-office includes a number of…