Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1919 — RULES AGAINST TAX BOARD [ARTICLE]

RULES AGAINST TAX BOARD

Judge of Dekalb Circuit Court Refuses to Sustain Demurrer. Auburn, Dec. 19-—Dan M. Link, judge of the Dekalb circuit court, overruled a demurrer late yesterday afternoon filed by the state board of tax commissioners in injunction proceedings brought by the Dekalb County Farmers’ federation to (prevent a 40% horizontal Increase in assessment of personal property in townships of the county as ordered by the state board. By agreement nd Injunction will be issued pending a decision by the state supreme court in a similar case, appealed from the Clinton circuit court, following a decision sustaining the statq tax board’s demurrer. '"The tax broad was* represented by U. 8. Lesh, assistant at-torney-general, of Indianapolis, and points raised in the demurrer were much the same as those introduced in similar cases. One of the principal contentions was that the petitioners had not exhausted their remedies under the act creating the board of tax commissioners, anß that the filing of action for an injunction is an extraordinary proceeding. Disapproves Horizontal Increase , Lafayette, Dec. 19. —Action was taken at a meeting of the Lafayette Real Estate association last

night disapproving the horizontal increase in tax valuations made by the state board of tax commlssloners.