Rackliffe-Gibson Construction Co. v. Zeilda Forsee Investment Co.

This is an action to enforce the lien of a special tax bill issued by the city of St. Joseph for the paving of Twenty-second street, under an ordinance duly passed for that purpose. The street runs north and south and the land owned by defendant against which the tax bill was issued consisted of an irregular, unplatted tract or parcel of land, the body of which was 1017 feet, nine inches long, from north to south, and of an average width of about 400 feet. The whole of the tract was west of Twenty-second street and all of it except a narrow strip we shall describe was separated from the…