Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Hogg

BARDGETT, Judge.

This is an appeal involving five consolidated Butler County Circuit Court suits, all of which were filed by certain utilities and a railroad to recover school district taxes paid under protest. The circuit found against plaintiffs-appellants and in favor of defendant-respondent Paul Hogg, collector of revenue of Butler County, and the school districts involved. This is the most recent of a number of cases1 we have had in the past few years involving the construction of sec. 137.073, RSMo 1969,2 a revenue law of Missouri. This court has jurisdiction. Art. 5, sec. 3, Mo.Const.,…