Opinion

Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation District v. County of Lincoln

  • 144 Neb. 584
  • 14 N.W.2d 202
  • 155 A.L.R. 412
  • 1944 Neb. LEXIS 68
Court
Nebraska Supreme Court
Filed
Apr 11, 1944
Status
Published
Author
Yeager
On the bench
Carter, Chappell, Messmore, Paine, Simmons, Wenke, Yeager
Cited by
32 cases

The opinion

Yeager, J.,

concurring- in the result.

I am convinced that the majority opinion announces a correct decision of the question of whether or not the plaintiff district is exempt from taxation but I think that since, as pointed out by the opinion, a constitutional ground exists for holding that a public power district organized pursuant to statute to engage in the production and distribution of electric current and in irrigation is exempt from taxation, that the decision and the ground therefor should be so limited.

To go beyond that is not only unnecessary but, as I see the situation, goes too. far toward determination of the matter of taxation of property of other and different corporations organized under and authorized by Senate File No. 310 for the performance of purposes not contemplated by the constitutional provisions mentioned in the opinion.

*600 It is my view that this court ought not, directly or indirectly, in the opinion in this case, to go beyond a determination of the question of whether or not a corporation organized under Senate File No. 310 for the purpose of performing the functions contemplated by the cited provisions of the Constitution is exempt from taxation.

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