Commerce Trust Co. v. Keck
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. Thomas J. Seehorn, Judge. (1) Substantial quantities of land both as to area and value that were required under the Charter of Kansas City to bear ratable shares of the cost of this grading have been omitted from assessment and charge, and so the burden on defendants ’ property has been materially and unlawfully' increased; and so the tax bills are excessive and void, (a) As to the definition of a block or square: Standard…
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. Thomas J. Seehorn, Judge. (1) Substantial quantities of land both as to area and value that were required under the Charter of Kansas City to bear ratable shares of the cost of this grading have been omitted from assessment and charge, and so the burden on defendants ’ property has been materially and unlawfully' increased; and so the tax bills are excessive and void, (a) As to the definition of a block or square: Standard Dictionary; Century Dictionary; Gilsonite Co. v. Fair Assn., 231 Mo. 601; Trust Co. v. Blakeley, 274 Mo. '58; City of Ottawa v.…
1Opinion of the CourtGoode, J.
The petition in this- case is in seven counts of similar tenor on as many special tax hills, issued against lots belonging to the defendants for the cost of grading Main Street, from Twenty-third Street on the north to Grand Avenue on the south. The taxed lots are numbered 28, 29, 80, 31 and 32, in Corrected Plat of City View Park, an addition to Kansas City, lying south of. the south line of Twenty-fourth Street, and two other lots described by metes and bounds in the same addition. One of the last mentioned lots was made by vacating an alley ten feet wide, and as thus formed, it fronts on…
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