Morris v. Woolery’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““(2) Intervenors have moved to quash, asserting first that the Director of the Department of Property Valuation did consider other factors, such as, probable future price structures, changing labor conditions and competing substitute products, but believed that ‘a moving arithmetic mean average of the previous ten year average price of copper per pound best predicted the future selling price * * *.’ The moving arithmetic average in a rapidly inflating economy over a ten-year period is manifestly arbitrary as being projected too far in the past to properly reflect valuations based upon current and probable future prices. The consideration of other factors without weighing them into a proper moving arithmetic mean average does not save the assessment from arbitrariness.””

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