Sierk v. Reynolds

HOGAN, Judge.

This is a suit on a special tax bill issued by the City of Springfield, a constitutional charter city, against the property of defendant Charles S. Reynolds for the cost of constructing sanitary sewers. Trial to the court has resulted in a judgment in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendants, and defendant Charles Reynolds has appealed.

The appellant, to whom we shall refer as the defendant, owns a tract of land (approximately 27 acres) located in a predominantly industrial area in the northwest part of the City of Springfield. Early in 1966, inferably in response to some…