Walden v. Dudley
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Livingston Circuit Court. I. The act of the General Assembly, approved February 26, 1869, extending the corporate limits of the city, is not in conflict with the constitution. (Cooley Const. Lina. 192-3 ; St. Louis v. Allen, 13 Mo. 400 ; St. Louis v. Russell, 9 Mo. 503 ; Sharp v. Dunavan, 17 B. Monr. 223 ; Weeks v. Milwaukee, 10 Wis. 242, 262 ; Langworthy v. Dubuque, 16 Iowa, 271.) II.
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Error to Livingston Circuit Court. I. The act of the General Assembly, approved February 26, 1869, extending the corporate limits of the city, is not in conflict with the constitution. (Cooley Const. Lina. 192-3 ; St. Louis v. Allen, 13 Mo. 400 ; St. Louis v. Russell, 9 Mo. 503 ; Sharp v. Dunavan, 17 B. Monr. 223 ; Weeks v. Milwaukee, 10 Wis. 242, 262 ; Langworthy v. Dubuque, 16 Iowa, 271.) II. The act extending the boundary of the city was not an act granting a new charter or franchise, but was a mere enlargement of and auxiliary to that which it already possessed under its original charter.…
1Opinion of the CourtBliss, Judge
The plaintiff is the owner of real estate within the extended corporate limits of the town of Chillicothe, which was regularly assessed for town taxes. He claims that the land is used exclusively for agricultural purposes; that it is not laid out in lots and blocks, and is not liable to municipal taxation ; and he brings this suit against the collector to recover property seized for the payment of the tax. The plaintiff does not claim any express exemption by statute, but only that the Legislature has no power to include farming land within corporate limits so as to subject it to corporate…
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