State ex rel. Douglass v. Redman

This is a suit for delinquent drainage ditch taxes assessed against land owned by defendant. The suit is brought in the name of the State at the relation of the collector of the revenue of Dunklin county, Missouri, for the use and'benefit of drainage district numbered four of that county. The record discloses that such drainage district is one formed under the supervision of the county court as provided by article 4, of chapter 122, Revised Statute 1899, which, as amended in 1905, is now article 4, of chapter 41 (secs. 5578-5635), Revised Statutes 1909. The controversy is as to the amount of…