City of Sedalia ex rel. Taylor v. Smith
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Pettis Circuit Court. — flow. George F. Longan, Judge. (1) The taxbills sued on are void because the ordinance and all the other proceedings in this case provide that the street in question shall be brought to the established grade and paved, and because the city council did not declare by ordinance or otherwise that in their judgment or opinion the general revenue fund of the city was not in a condition to warrant an expenditure therefrom for bringing the street…
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Appeal from Pettis Circuit Court. — flow. George F. Longan, Judge. (1) The taxbills sued on are void because the ordinance and all the other proceedings in this case provide that the street in question shall be brought to the established grade and paved, and because the city council did not declare by ordinance or otherwise that in their judgment or opinion the general revenue fund of the city was not in a condition to warrant an expenditure therefrom for bringing the street to the establisted grade. Both the resolution and the ordinance, as well as the bid for doing the work, provide for the…
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
This is an action upon a special tax-bill issued for improving a portion of Fourth street in the city of Sedalia, the improved portion being from the west line of Thomson avenue to the east line of Park avenue. It is one of a number of cases growing out of the refusal of the property-owners on said portion of Fourth street to pay the special taxbills issued to improve the street. The cases, therefore, are but *349slightly different in the essential facts, as well as in law, and three of them were argued here together. Another had previously gone to the Kansas City Court of Appeals. [City of…
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