State ex rel. Millis v. Fleming

This suit was instituted for the purpose of collecting the taxes, interest and collector’s commission for the years 1907,1908,1909,191Ó, 1911 and 1912 on real estate in the city of Aurora known as the Armory Building. The answer of the defendants pleaded, among other defenses, that the property sought to be charged with a tax was leased and rented to the State of Missouri for military purposes during all of said time and that by reason there*262of it was exempt from taxation under section 8378, Bevised Statutes 1909, which, provides that “All armories owned by this State or by any organization of…