Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — HAS RULED AGAINST TAX LAW [ARTICLE]

HAS RULED AGAINST TAX LAW

■mi mu— 0* And Clay County Judge Grants Injunction Sult at Brazil. Brazil, Nov. 27.—Plaintiffs In a suit attacking the new state tax latV won a victory in Clay circuit court Monday, when Judge Hutchinson granted an injunction enjoining the county auditor and the treasurer from collecting a 20% horizontal increase in realty taxes in this city, made by the state tax board. The suit was brought by County Assessor Addms, alleging that Brazil real estate was assessed at its true cash value by the township assessor and that the state board. made the horizontal increase without investigating or ascertaining the real cash value here. A similar decision was made last week by Judge Hughes jn the Clinton circuit court at Frankfort. It was said then that the state tax board was planning to take the case to the Indiana supreme court.