Trimble v. Kitsap County
Trimble v. Kitsap County
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiffs, Trimble and wife, commenced this action in the superior court for Kitsap county, seeking a decree reducing the assessed valuation made by the taxing officers of that county, for purposes of taxation, upon lands belonging to the plaintiffs, situated on Blake Island in that county; and requiring the county and its officers to accept in full payment of taxes upon the lands for the years in question, a less amount than that levied thereon by the taxing officers of that county in accordance with the alleged excessive assessment. Trial upon the merits, in the superior court, resulted in a judgment denying the relief prayed for, from which the plaintiffs have appealed to this court.
Fullerton, Mackintosh, and Bridges, JJ., concur.
Dissenting Opinion
(dissenting) — I dissent. I think the lands were assessed out of all proportion to any lands of anywhere near the same .class, use, surroundings and possibilities, and therefore with very unjust discrimination.
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- William Pitt Trimble v. Kitsap County
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- Syllabus
- Taxation (202) — Action to Reduce Assessment — Evidence—Sufficiency. Opinion evidence that the taxing officers had assessed land in excess of fifty per cent of its actual value held, in view of conflicting evidence, not to show material over-valuation with the necessary degree of eonclusiveness to warrant setting the assessment aside (Holcomb, C. J., dissents).