WASH. CTY. BD. OF SUP'RS v. GREENVILLE MILL

No. 53577.

437 So.2d 401 (1983)

WASHINGTON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS and Mildred Klein, Tax Assessor of Washington County, Mississippi v. GREENVILLE MILL, A DIVISION OF MOHASCO CORPORATION, Friedman Iron & Metal Company and the Friedman Steel Company.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robertshaw & Merideth, J. Robertshaw, George H. Slade, Greenville, for appellants.

Lake, Tindall, Hunger & Thackston, Jerome C. Hafter, Greenville, for appellees.

En Banc.


WALKER, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Washington County wherein the trial court found that the Washington County Board of Supervisors had misinterpreted section 112 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 when establishing a tax assessment ratio of twenty-five percent of true value for personal property and a ten percent ratio of true value for real property.

The lower court held, as a matter of law:

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