Beeson v. Johns

Citations

• 124 U.S. 56
• 8 S. Ct. 352
• 31 L. Ed. 360
• 1888 U.S. LEXIS 1834

Syllabus

<p>In an action to set aside and have declared void a tax deed, made upon a sale for taxes of the plaintiff's land, upon the ground of a discrimination in the assessment against the plaintiff as a non-resident, it appearing that the laws under which it was made did not require the assessment to be more favorable to resident owners than to non-residents, and that the question to he decided related only to the action of a single assessor, or to the action of a board of equalization, and there being no sufficient evidence t>f such a discrimination against the owner of the lands; Held, that mere errors in assessment should be corrected by proceedings which the law allows before such sale, or before the deed was finally made.</p>