Harris Trust & Savings Bank v. Earl

OTIS, District Judge.

The board of county commissioners of Cherokee county, Kan., and the treasurer of that county, appellees here, intervened below in a suit brought by appellants to foreclose a deed of trust against the Joplin & Pittsburg Railroad Company. The. interveners assert a prior lien for taxes. The trial court found in their favor, gave judgment against the railway company for the taxes claimed to be due, with interest and penalties, and decreed that that judgment should be a first lien upon the company’s assets. The appellants contest that judgment.

The taxes involved are for the…