People Ex Rel. Schmulbach v. City of St. Louis, Missouri

This is an appeal by the city of St. Louis, Missouri, from a judgment of the county court of St. Clair County, overruling the city’s objections to a portion of the taxes assessed against its property for each of the years 1946 and 1947.

The case involves the assessments of the Illinois portion of the MacArthur Bridge owned by the city of St. Louis, sometimes known as the free bridge, across the Mississippi river. For each of the years 1946 and 1947, both the board of assessors and the board of review of St. Clair County assessed all taxable property in the county at what they determined to be…