Addresses and Proceedings Volume 9, PT. 1920

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...laughed at me, and I threatened to take an appeal and they thought that was all nonsense, --that I wouldn't do anything of the kind. You go on home; you'll feel better in the morning, they said to me. In the meantime, this last fall, I was elected supervisor. unanimously, and I was elected assessor unanimously after I filled out the one year's appointment. Then I went down and told them, If you do not come across and equalize this, I will take this appeal. On the first day of January I did take the appeal, and the result is that our clerk called the board together on the eighth of March to organize, and in the meantime, on the ninth of February Judge Knapp had come out and started the wheels rolling in this appeal. Things developed that did not sound good to me, so on the eighth of March, after the evening session, one of those fellows who has the most to say came to me and wanted to know if I would consider a proposition to settle this appeal. I said, I don't know; I will talk with you in the morning, and he said, all right. So the next morning the chairman of the equalization committee came to me. I told him after the session was over if he would get Mr. Ackerman and Mr. Howard and myself and go into the juryroom and lock the door I would talk with them. When we were all inside I said, !Mow, then, gentlemen, lay your cards on the table, face up, so that I can see them. Their proposition was that they were beaten. They had discovered that, and they did not want this appeal to go on any longer, because it was going to run up a lot of costs, and the best way was to settle it, and they said that they would allow me a proper equalization in my town. They would amend the rules for appointing this equal...