Board of County Commissioners v. Adams

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Allen, J.:

This was an action instituted in the name of the board of county commissioners of Wyandotte county to foreclose the general lien for general taxes upon 350 odd tracts of real estate upon which taxes were delinquent for more than five years. The various tracts had been bid in by the county for delinquent taxes and had been held by the county for the period prescribed, by law.

Included in the action were a number of tracts against which the city of Kansas City had issued special tax bills to pay the cost of special improvements. The holders of…