United States v. Certain Land

COLLET, District Judge.

The sole question involved is whether the state, county and city taxes for the entire year 1942, shall be withheld from the property owner and paid over to the tax authorities or whether a sum equal to the taxes for that part of the year during which the property owner owned the property and during which the property was taxable should be withheld.

Several millions of dollars have been paid to hundreds of Missouri citizens in eminent domain proceedings upon the basis set out in United States v. Certain Land in City of St. Louis, Mo., D.C., 29 F.Supp. 92. That decision…