State ex rel. Reed v. Elliott

This is an appeal from an order overruling a motion to set aside a sheriff’s sale of real estate for delinquent taxes.

The facts are: that the relator, as city collector of Webb City, brought suit against the defendants, to re*659cover the city taxes on a certain twenty acres of land, for the years 1893 to 1897, inclusive, aggregating, with interest and penalties, the sum of $76.82. The defendants were properly summoned, and appeared, pleaded and defended the case, with the result that a judgment was rendered in favor of the defendants for the taxes claimed for all the said years except the year…