DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE v. HOPPE

No. 42671.

82 Wn.2d 549 (1973)

512 P.2d 1094

THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE et al., Appellants, v. HARLEY H. HOPPE et al., Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

July 19, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, and William D. Dexter, Assistant, for appellants.

Christopher T. Bayley, Prosecuting Attorney, by J. Richard Quirk, Deputy, for respondents Hoppe et al.

Schweppe, Doolittle, Krug, Tausend, Beezer & Beierle, by Robert R. Beezer, for respondents Scoones.

G. Keith Grim, and Jennings P. Felix & Associates, by Jennings P. Felix, amici curiae.


BRACHTENBACH, J.

While this appeal involves a multitude of issues involving this state's complex scheme of property taxation, a constitutional amendment, an initiative and various statutes, the pivotal question to be answered by this court is the maximum millage rate at which property will be taxed for collection in the calendar year 1973.

This controversy arises from the voters' adoption on November 7, 1972, of SJR 1 (now amendment 55 to our constitution...

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