McKine v. City of Independence

Plaintiff’s action was instituted for the purpose of cancelling certain taxbills issued for street paving in the city of Independence. He had judgment in the circuit court.

The ground' charged is that the defendant, the contractor who promoted the work, fraudulently and secretly allowed rebates to certain property holders along the street to he paved; and what, in this controversy, is perhaps the same thing, in consideration that *333certain property holders would withdraw opposition to the improvement and take their names from a remonstrance which had been filed, they would be paid a sum of…