First National Bank v. Shewalter

This is a suit to enforce the lien of a special taxbill issued by Independence, a city of the third class, on account of the grading and paving of one of its public streets. The court sustained the validity of the taxbill and defendant appealed from the judgment rendered for plaintiff.

No bill of exceptions is in the record and the issue here is the sufficiency of the petition to state a cause of action. The petition alleges that plaintiff is the owner and holder of the taxbill; that the taxbill, the contents and date of which- is set out, was issued by the city of Independence, a city of the…