60 Neb. 779 | Neb. | 1900
This cause bas been twice decided by this court and twice remanded to tbe district court for further proceedings. Adams v. Osgood, 42 Nebr., 450, 55 Nebr., 766. Tbe plaintiff, J. McGregor Adams, charged in tbe petition tbat bis title to certain Omaha real estate was clouded by two void tax sale certificates and other pretended tax liens held by tbe defendant, Ralph R. Osgood. Osgood answered, alleging tbat tbe certificates and liens referred to in tbe petition were valid, and praying for a foreclosure of tbe same. Tbe plaintiff having dismissed bis cause of action after tbe first judgment of reversal, there was a trial only of tbe issues formed by tbe answer and reply. Tbe district court found in favor of tbe defendant and rendered a decree of foreclosure, from which plaintiff appeals.
His third contention is that the record does not show that there was an assessment or levy for the year 1888. We think it does. The petition, which was given in evi
A further contention on behalf of appellant is that a portion of the taxes included in the decree are void because the board of equalization was not in session in the years for which such taxes were levied. There is no proof that the board did not hold annual sessions as required by the statute, and the presumption is that it did. An assessment and levy for general revenue are always evidence of a valid tax. It is presumed that the taxing authorities in making such an assessment and levy proceeded according to law; that they discharged with fidelity the duties imposed upon them by the revenue act. Miller v. Hurford, 13 Nebr., 13; Towle v. Holt, 14 Nebr., 221; Leavitt v. Bell, 55 Nebr., 57; Chamberlain Banking House v. Woolsey, 60 Nebr., 516; Durham v. People, 67 Ill., 414; Shelbyville Water Co. v. People, 140 Ill., 545; 2 Desty, Taxation, 615.
Some other arguments against the validity of defendant’s liens are explicitly answered by sections 141 and 142, article 1, chapter 77, Compiled Statutes, 1899.
The judgment is right and is
Affirmed.