| Show MINE PROPERTY OVERVALUED Asscd to an Unknown Owner at Fifty Thousand Dollars rtilefAsked forbcCrnentyclatoraltlare No Authority Jo the Fraw Iles Deputy Attorney General Bcnner X Smith submitted an opinion today to L II Eddy county attorney for Grand county on the question at the power of county commissioners to lower low-er nn assessment made uy tile assessor after the time for hearing protests had expired Mr Smith holds that In view of this fact the commissioners have no authority to modify or re dUc the neosmcnt The question was whether any Idle could be given on account at an assessment at fifty thou send dular for Improvements and machinery ma-chinery upon a certain mining prop rty which wan asO to an unknown Un-known owner Notice at valuation had been served upon an authorized agent for the ulkn n owner and no application for a reduction of the as restmenl a made to the board of equalization although the property la I not worth more than JlMO Attorney Smith snys the property ne should have made it statement of the kind and valuation ot his prop uty In he absence at such statement It wait file duty ot the assessor to value and assets the property accordIng accord-Ing to his best knowledge Under the tact 1 disclosedtheassesor committed ted an r or In 1 Judgment only and tho only rlet wouhlLe by applIcation to the county board of equalization which Is I no longer In ceslon The county olll core now hao no authority to modify or reduce the osscssrneut |
