State ex rel. Van Brown v. Shepherd

This suit was instituted in the Hannibal court of common pleas on March 8, 1880, against the appellant as the owner of a part of a lot in the city of Hannibal described as twenty feet on Broadway by sixty-five and one-half feet, beginning twenty-two feet east of Third street, and a part of lot 8 in block number 12, to recover back taxes due the city for the years 1874, 1875 and 1876, assessed against Thomas H. Branham as the then owner of said ground. The taxes are denominated severally as the general tax, compromise tax, special tax, floating debt tax and judgment tax. The action is in the…