Saar v. Carson
Saar v. Carson
Opinion of the Court
The county treasurer, claiming to have discovered that certain property, .moneys, and credits belonging to Sophia Saar .in her lifetime had been withheld or omitted from assessment for the years 1901, 1902, and 1903, proceeded to assess the same, and to enter up taxes thereon for the several years above mentioned. The petition herein alleges that said assessment and taxation are void because: (1) No notice of the proceeding or proposed assessment was given by the treasurer, as provided by law; (2) no hearing upon the matter of the proposed assessment was ever had before said treasurer, as provided by law; (3) no notice was ever received by the executor that such assessment or levy had been made; (4) the executor never had in his possession or control the property attempted to be assessed or taxed; and (5) that the acts of the treasurer in that behalf were without the authority of law. The record shows without dispute that one Foote, representing a firm of tax ferrets employed by Mills County, claimed to have discovered certain moneys and credits belonging to Sophia Saar in her lifetime which had been' omitted from taxation, and brought -the matter to the attention of the county treasurer. Acting upon this information, the treasurer, on June 29, 1905, notified one of the executors of Mrs. Saar’s will of the claim made, and that it would come on for hearing at the treasurer’s office at ten o’clock a. m. of July 11, 1905. On the day named at least one of the executors appeared with counsel at the- treasurer’s office, and objected to the assessment, on the ground that the promissory notes constituting the credits in question represented merely advances made by the testatrix to her children, and were not properly subject to taxation. The discussion appears to have been carried on between counsel
To avoid the effect of the assessment counsel for appellant insist that no hearing was had before the treasurer, that so far as any hearing was had it was before Foote alone, who had no authority in the premises, and that it was Foote, and not the treasurer, who made the assessment. In this we think appellant’s position is not borne out by the record. True, it is shown that when the executors and their counsel appeared before the treasurer in response to the notice given therefor, and made their objections to the proposed assessment, Foote, whose position was in effect that of agent for the county, carried on the discussion with counsel, and the treasurer relied very largely upon his advice as to the law of the case, but it clearly appears that it was the treasurer who entered up the assessment, and the statement in argument that such assessment was made by
It follows of necessity that the judgment of the district court dismissing the bill for an injunction must be, and it is, affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- F. J. Saar, of the Will of Sophia Saar v. E. L. Carson, as County Treasurer of Mills County, Iowa
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- Published