City of St. Louis ex rel. Rotchford v. De Noue
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. I. Tbe intention of the law evidently is to make the cost of this class of work a direct charge upon the property itself. The engineer is directed to issue his tax bills against the ground, not against the owner of the ground; and when the assessment is made against the ground, the law then says that the owner shall pay it.
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Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. I. Tbe intention of the law evidently is to make the cost of this class of work a direct charge upon the property itself. The engineer is directed to issue his tax bills against the ground, not against the owner of the ground; and when the assessment is made against the ground, the law then says that the owner shall pay it. (Holland v. Anderson, 40 Mo. 600.) H. The provision in the charter that the engineer shall make out his tax bills against each lot, in the name of the owner thereof, is directory in its nature. It is a provision intended to be for the…
1Opinion of the CourtCurrier, Judge
This suit is prosecuted to recover the amount of a special tax against the land described in the petition, to defray in part the cost of constructing a sewer in the sewer district where the land is situated. The petition alleges that the land assessed is owned in fee by defendant B. B. H. De Noue, wife of L. De Noue, another defendant, subject to the rights of her husband acquired in virtue of their intermarriage ; that the other defendants were interested in the property, De Noue and wife having conveyed it to two of them in trust to secure an indebtedness to the remaining defendant. The…
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