State ex rel. Kemper v. Smith

In this case there was a judgment in rem under the law relating to the collection of delinquent and back taxes (Rev. Stats., chap. 145, Art. VI.), against thirty-nine tracts of land belonging to the defendants, in the aggregate sum of $39,109.81. The taxes on account of which the judgment was rendered, were taxes which had been laid and assessed for the drainage of the Marias Temps Clair Lake in St. Charles County. Execution was issued upon this judgment and was levied upon the lands in question. The bill of costs upon the execution, as taxed by the clerk, included, besides the fees of the…