Wisconsin-Michigan Power Co. v. Tax Commission
Wisconsin-Michigan Power Co. v. Tax Commission
Opinion of the Court
So far as now material, the facts and issues in this case are substantially similar to those involved in the companion case of Milwaukee E. R. & L. Co. v. Tax Commission, decided herewith (ante, p. 523, 242 N. W. 3.12), excepting that appellant herein formerly operated a street railway system in Appleton, Neenah, and interurban lines between Appleton and Neenah, arid Appleton and Kaukauna, but had discontinued its street and interurban railway operations, and in lieu thereof had substituted bus operations.
The trial court reached the same conclusion as in the companion case of Milwaukee E. R. & L. Co. v. Tax Commission, supra, in relation to all motor vehicles operated by appellant, excepting the busses which it operated in lieu of the railway operations which it had discontinued. • The trial court concluded that motor vehicles so utilized in such bus operations should be treated, for assessment and taxation purposes, the same as like property of other independent bus transportation companies; and that therefore the inclusion of such motor vehicles for assessment and taxation purposes under ch. 76, Stats., by the Tax Commission was erroneous, and that the same should be rectified.
Pursuant to that conclusion, judgment was ordered vacating the assessment of appellant’s property for the year 1931 pursuant to ch. 76, Stats., and the Tax Commission was ordered to correct its assessment of that property pursuant to sec. 76.15 by making a proportionate reduction in said assessment on account of said motor busses erroneously included therein. In so far as that judgment confined the reduction which it ordered in the assessment to motor busses, appellant takes exception thereto ánd contends, on its appeal from the judgment, that the reduction should have extended to all of the motor vehicles which it owned and used in its business.
As regards appellant’s appeal and that contention, we are of the opinion that, for the reasons stated in the opinion filed herewith in the companion case of Milwaukee E. R. & L. Co. v. Tax Commission, no error was committed in not extending the claimed exemption and reduction to all of appellant’s other motor vehicles. " .
By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.
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