Cole v. Skrainka

DISSENTING OPINION.

Thompson, J.

This is a suit in equity to cancel a special tax bill issued by the city of St. Louis to the defendant, under a contract for reconstructing with granite pavement a street against which the plaintiffs’ property abutted. By the charter and ordinances of the city, applicable to the subject of this special tax bill, it is made a lien against the property in respect of which it is issued. The plaintiffs predicate their right to the relief claimed on the ground that the tax bill is invalid for the reason that the ordinance authorizing the reconstruction of the street…