Case ID: ohio-cc-dec_23/html/0628-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "KINKADE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ASSESSMENTS — PENALTIES.
    [Lucas (6th) Circuit Court,
    February 11, 1910.]
    Parker, Wildman and Kinkade, JJ.
    State ex rel. Acklin v. Charles Sanzenbacher, Aud., et al.
    Assessments for Public Improvements not Subject to Delinquent Tax Penalty.
    Neither Gen. Code 2608 (R. S. 1053), providing for auditing a 15 per cent penalty upon delinquent land taxes, nor any other statute imposes such penalty upon unpaid assessments against real property for public improvements, and mandamus will lie to compel a county treasurer to accept assessments that are due without collecting a penalty thereon.
   KINKADE, J.

This is an action in mandamus brought in this court to require the county treasurer to accept the assessments that are due without collecting the penalty on the assessment. There is no occasion to review all of the statutes that were mentioned by counsel here in argument. We have gone over the situation very thoroughly, and we are satisfied there is no authority in the statutes of Ohio for affixing the 15 per cent on the assessments the same as it is fixed upon taxes. The statute, Gen. Code 2608 (E. S. 1053), provides that such penalty must be placed upon delinquent taxes; must be audited, I should say, ■on delinquent taxes. We find no statute so directing as to assessments, and for that reason we think the placing of it there is not warranted, and the relief prayed for here must be granted. We do not find any authority, I should have said, for the placing of any penalties on assessments such as are placed for taxes.

. Parker and Wildman, JJ., concur.