Ranney v. City of Cape Girardeau

Mrs. Ranney, in tlie Cape Girardeau Common Pleas Court, sued the city of Cape. Girardeau *515in equity. The life of her bill was to have certain benefit assessments for street improvements and the tax bills issued therefor declared null and void on seventeen grounds. Some of those grounds related to the absence of a publication of a preliminary resolution declaring the street improvements necessary; some, to the fact that the work was not let to the, lowest bidder; some, to the absence of any estimate of the cost of the improvements; some, to omissions, and inadvertences of the city clerk; some,…