Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1919 — SUIT FILED TO ENJOIN AUDITOR [ARTICLE]

SUIT FILED TO ENJOIN AUDITOR

Taxpayers of Kosciusko County File Sult Aimed at Tax Board. Warsaw, Ind., Sept. Taxpayers of Kosculsko county have filed suit in the circuit court to enjoin V. D. Mock, county auditor, from carrying out the orders of the state tax board to Increase appraisements on personal property and real estate. Bertram Shane, county attorney, has entered an appearance for the auditor. The action has been brought to test the powers of the state tax board. The complaint Charges that the tax board’s action In Increasing the appraisements was illegal and void in that the board attempted to separate the (property into classes and attempted to separate the political units into classes and to increase the valuations on this basis; and that the state tax board attempted to fix a value in excess of the true cash value.