Bader Realty & Invesment Co. v. St. Louis Housing Authority

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CONKLING, J.

This is an action for a declaratory judgment that the prior tax exempt status of defendant-respondent St. Louis Housing Authority shall no longer continue. The Chancellor adjudged all the property of Housing Authority to be tax exempt. Plaintiff appealed.

Plaintiff is a taxpayer and the owner and operator of many parcels, of improved real estate in the City of St. Louis. In addition to the St. Louis Housing Authority, the City-of St. Louis, its. Assessor, Comptroller and Collector were also made defendants.

Judgment was sought declaring that since the effective date of our 1945…