24 Or. 217 | Or. | 1893
delivered the opinion of the court:
This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court reversing and annulling on a writ of review the action and proceedings of the board of equalization of Malheur County in the matter of the assessment of the plaintiff’s property for the year 1891. From the record it appears that on an examination of said assessment as returned by the assessor it satisfactorily appeared to the board of equalization that not all his property assessable in said county had been assessed, and that for the purpose of avoiding taxation, he had claimed and had been allowed a
It thus appears that the only question on this appeal is whether the proceedings of a board of equalization, after it has acquired jurisdiction óf the taxpayer, will be set aside and annulled on writ of review because the record does not contain the evidence on which its findings of fact were based. There is no provision of law of which we are aware making it the duty of the board to reduce to writing or preserve the evidence before it in the matter of the' equalization of taxes, and, although it is an inferior tribunal, every presumption exists in favor of the regularity of its proceedings after it has once acquired jurisdiction: Thompson v. Multnomah County, 2 Or. 34; Brown, Jurisdiction, § 20; Cent. Pac. R. R. Co. v. Placer County, 32 Cal. 582. The record in this case recites that the correction in
It follows that the judgment of the court below must be reversed, and the proceedings of the board of equalization affirmed.