Pleadwell v. Missouri Glass Co.

REYNOLDS, P. J. —

This is an action by the devisees of the then owner and lessor of certain premises in the city of St. Lonis, against the lessee, to recover of the lessee the amount paid out by them on a certain tax-bill alleged to have been levied and assessed against those premises, which it is alleged that plaintiffs had paid but which they claim the lessee was obligated to pay under a covenant of the lease, that the lessee, its successors, etc., “agrees to pay all taxes, whether general or special, levied or assessed against said property, or the improvements thereon during said term.”…