AMERICAN SMELTING ETC. v. CTY. OF CONTRA COSTA

Docket No. 24762.

271 Cal.App.2d 437 (1969)

77 Cal. Rptr. 570

AMERICAN SMELTING AND REFINING COMPANY, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

April 4, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Nejedly, District Attorney, John B. Clausen, Acting District Attorney, Howard T. Gonsalves and Arthur W. Walenta, Jr., Deputy District Attorneys, for Defendants and Appellants.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Ernest P. Goodman, Assistant Attorney General, and John J. Klee, Jr., Deputy Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Valentine Brookes, Paul E. Anderson, Charles S. Franklin and Kent, Brookes & Anderson for Plaintiff and Respondent.


SIMS, J.

The County of Contra Costa and its officials charged with the levy, assessment, collection and cancellation of property taxes have appealed from a judgment which granted the American Smelting and Refining Company a peremptory writ of mandate commanding appellants to cancel an allegedly illegal property tax assessment, and an injunction permanently restraining the collection of property taxes levied on that...

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