Lohrum v. Eyermann

This is an action upon a special tax-bill for $1,146.65. There was evidence tending to show that the property charged was improved ; that it fronts upon the Gravois Road, in the city of St. Louis, and was about a foot above the original grade of that street, which had been graded, macadamized, and improved at this point even before this property was included in the city by the extension of the limits ; that shortly before the passage of the ordinance authorizing the work for which this tax-bill was issued, without the knowledge or consent of defendant’s testatrix, — the owner of the property,…