FRANCIS H. LEGGETT & CO. v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket No. 28494.

235 Cal.App.2d 752 (1965)

45 Cal. Rptr. 561

FRANCIS H. LEGGETT & COMPANY, Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent; F.E. BOOTH COMPANY, INC., Cross-defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

July 15, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ekdale & Shallenberger, Chickering & Gregory, Arch E. Ekdale, Gordon P. Shallenberger and Bruce M. Casey, Jr., for Cross-defendant and Appellant.

Ryan & Traxler and Sidney Traxler for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, and DeWitt W. Clinton, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.


FLEMING, J.

The issue here is whether the seller or the buyer of certain cannery equipment should bear the burden of the county property tax for the year 1962-1963.

On March 5, 1962, the tax assessment date under Revenue and Taxation Code, section 405, the transfer of the interest in the property from seller Booth to buyer Leggett was still unfinished, to a greater or lesser degree. Section 405 contains catchall language designed to assure that property in...

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