Kansas City Grading Co. v. Holden
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jaclcson Circuit Court. — Hon. Turner A. Gill, Judge. Certified to Supreme Court. Statement of case by the court. ■ This is an action upon special tax bills issued for the grading of May street, in Kansas City, from Sixth to Ninth streets. The plaintiff did the work under a contract with the city, and seeks to enforce the lien of the bills against the real estate of defendants.
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Appeal from Jaclcson Circuit Court. — Hon. Turner A. Gill, Judge. Certified to Supreme Court. Statement of case by the court. ■ This is an action upon special tax bills issued for the grading of May street, in Kansas City, from Sixth to Ninth streets. The plaintiff did the work under a contract with the city, and seeks to enforce the lien of the bills against the real estate of defendants. Defendant admits the doing of the work, the signature of the city engineer to the bills, and the ownership of the real estate described in the bills, but claims that the contract between plaintiff and the…
1DissentRamsay, J.
(dissenting.) — The plaintiff in this suit seeks to recover of the defendants the amount of six special tax bills, issued to it by the city engineer of the City of Kansas, against the property of the defendants for their portion of their costs of grading May street in said city, from Sixth to Ninth streets, under a contract with said city. No question is made upon the sufficiency of the petition or the regularity of the bills upon their face. Defendants in their answer admit that plaintiff did the work, under the contract according to its terms, and that defendants were owners of real estate…
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