City of Hannibal ex rel. Bassen v. Bowman
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Hannibal Court of Common Pleas. — Hon. David H. Eby, Judge. STATEMENT. The petition in this case covers twenty pages of printed matter.
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Appeal from Hannibal Court of Common Pleas. — Hon. David H. Eby, Judge. STATEMENT. The petition in this case covers twenty pages of printed matter. The material facts alleged are that the city of Hannibal was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly passed in the year 1845, with power to levy and collect certain city and special taxes set ■forth in the petition; that Joseph Bassen is the collector of taxes in and for said city and defendants are the administrators of the estate of Daniel Coney, who died in the year 1898; that for many years prior to his death Coney was a resident of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBland, P. J.
The suit is grounded on what is commonly known as back taxbills. These bills are properly made out and certified and are, by virtue of a statute, prima facie evidence that the taxes sued for are due and unpaid, hence, if there was nothing more in the petition than a simple declaration. of the bills themselves, plaintiff would have a prima facie case. But the petition goes behind the taxbills and states minutely and with great particularity each and every step taken by the officers of the city to produce and bring into existence the taxbills. Prom the petition it affirmatively appears that no…
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