Kansas City Exposition Driving Park v. Kansas City
Supreme Court of Missouri
Transferred from Kansas City Court of Appeals. The record shows that in the two eases at bar respondent obtained an injunction enjoining the city from the collection of park and park maintenance taxes as well as city taxes levied during the years 1896 and 1897. So much of the judgment of the court below as enjoins the collection of the park and park maintenance tax is clearly void, because those taxes are taxes for local improvements and do not come within the exemption from…
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Transferred from Kansas City Court of Appeals. The record shows that in the two eases at bar respondent obtained an injunction enjoining the city from the collection of park and park maintenance taxes as well as city taxes levied during the years 1896 and 1897. So much of the judgment of the court below as enjoins the collection of the park and park maintenance tax is clearly void, because those taxes are taxes for local improvements and do not come within the exemption from general taxation given by the Constitution. Thus, in Sheehan v. Good Samaritan Hospital, 50 Mo. 156, defendant claimed…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
For the purposes of this appeal these two causes will be considered together. They are suits to enjoin the collection -of certain taxes alleged to have been illegally levied on certain city property and have been transferred to this court because they involve a construction of the revenue laws of the State.
"VVe think they were properly certified, as the exemption claimed applies as to all State and county taxes as well as to the municipal tax.
One suit is to enjoin the taxes for 1896, and the other the taxes for 1897. A perpetual injunction was decreed, from which the city and the city…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Cromwell v. County of SacSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- New Orleans v. Citizens' BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Keokuk & Western Railroad v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Perry v. . DickersonNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
- Lockwood v. City of St. LouisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1856
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Womach v. City of St. JosephSupreme Court of Missouri · 1907
- State ex rel. Spillers v. JohnstonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1908
- American Polled Hereford Ass'n v. City of Kansas CitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1982
- City of St. Louis v. United Railways Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1915
- McDonald v. PadillaNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1948
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