Board of Supervisors v. Dale
Board of Supervisors v. Dale
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The. appellee, John Dale, trustee, filed his petition with the board of supervisors of Adams county at the March term in 1914 to abate an assessment, appearing on the personal assessment rolls “on loans at a greater rate of interest than six per cent, per annum, ’ ’ of six thousand dollars against .the estate of Mary Ella Nutt, which taxes were assessed against said estate by said board at its August meeting in 1913. The petition avers that said trustee.at the time of his appointment, and has continuously ever since, resided and been a citizen óf the state of Louisiana. Said petition further avers that the only
By consent of both parties, a jury was waived, and the case was tried on this agreement before the circuit judge, who granted the prayer of the petition and abated the assessment, from which order this appeal is here prose-’ cuted.
The agreed statement of facts shows that in this. ease there was an “overvaluation known to be such” in the making of this assessment, and also there was made a “clerical error in the assessment rolls,” which gave the board of supervisors the power at any time on the application of the party interested to grant the proper relief under section 4312 of the Code of 1906. Simmons v. Scott County, 68 Miss. 37, 8 So. 259; Jennings v. Coahoma County, 79 Miss. 523, 31 So. 107.
The personal property covered by this assessment should have been assessed to the trustee in his character as trustee at his residence or domicile. Millsaps v. City of Jackson, 78 Miss. 537, 30 So. 756.
For these reasons, the case is affirmed.
Affirmed.
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- 1. Taxation. Assessment. Reduction. Proceedings. Personal property. To whom assessable. Under Code 1906, section 4312, so providing, where there is an overvaluation of property assessed known to he such and also a clerical error in the assessment rolls, the hoard of supervisors have the power at any time on the application of a party interested, to correct the assessment. 2. Taxation. Personal property. To whom assessable. Personal property belonging to an estate held in trust, should he assessed to the trustee in his representative capacity at his residence or domicile.