State Ex Rel. Moore v. Wabash Railroad Co.

[224] In the lower court the appellant (plaintiff) collector unsuccessfully sought judgment against respondent (defendant) for a tax for road and bridge purposes. The tax was purported to have .been levied against the property of the railroad distributable to Jefferson Township in Nodaway County. The attempted tax levy was intended to be under the authority of the second sentence of Section 12(a) of Article X of the Constitution of 1945 and Laws Mo. 1945, page 1480, Sec. 8529. After the adverse judgment appellant brought the case here.

The canse was tried before the Court upon agreed facts.…