Vrana v. City of St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Valliant,. Judge. (1) The city having accepted the dedication made by Thomas Allen, all the conditions specified in the deed of dedication became binding on the city.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Valliant,. Judge. (1) The city having accepted the dedication made by Thomas Allen, all the conditions specified in the deed of dedication became binding on the city. Heitz v. St. Louis, 110 Mo. 618; Kemper v. Collins, 97 Mo. 644; St. Louis v. Meier, 77 Mo. 13; Becker v. St. Charles, 37 Mo. 13; Rose v. St. Charles, 49 Mo. 509. (2) That part of Iowa avenue which was opened under city ordinance 16141 was beyond the limits of Allen’s addition, and the city had no legal authority to embrace in the district to be taxed for this opening and…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
— This is a suit in equity to enjoin the collection of certain special taxbills against eight lots of ground on Iowa avenue in the city of St. Louis, which belonged, at the institution of this suit, to Louis Vrana, and have since his death passed to the present plaintiffs and appellants as his successors in the title. The taxbills \ were issued under condemnation proceedings, regularly instituted and prosecuted for the opening of Iowa avenue from the northern line of Thomas Allen’s Western Addition to the city northward to Lafayette avenue. The case was submitted upon an agreed statement of…
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