Opinion
No. 36448.
Filed May 19, 1967.
Taxation. The decision of the State Board of Equalization and Assessment ordering Douglas County to increase its assessed valuation of urban and suburban property 24 percent was arbitrary and unreasonable.
Appeal from the state Board of Equalization and Assessment. Reversed.
Beber, Richards Polack, Steven J. Riekes, and Michael G. Brady, for appellants.
Clarence A. H. Meyer, Attorney General, and Homer G. Hamilton, for appellee.
Heard before WHITE, C.J., SPENCER, BOSLAUGH, SMITH, McCOWN, and NEWTON, JJ., and WHITE, District Judge.
This is an appeal by Julius Novak, a resident and taxpayer of Douglas County, and Ben Realty Company, from an order of the state Board of Equalization and Assessment increasing the valuation of industrial and commercial property within incorporated municipalities in Douglas County 24 percent.
This; appeal involves the same issue decided today in Brandeis Investment Co. v. State Board of Equalization Assessment, post p. 750, 150 N.W.2d 893, and is controlled by that opinion. For the reasons enunciated therein, the order of the state Board of Equalization and Assessment is reversed as to these appellants.
REVERSED.