61 Mo. App. 539 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1895
—The city of St. Louis issued a special tax bill for alley paving against a tract of land having a front of one hundred and ninety and forty-four hundredths feet by a depth of one hundred and nineteen and seventy-five hundredths. The defendant corporation is the owner and lessor of the tract, and the defendant Neuhoff its lessee. It stands conceded that the special tax was properly assessed in all respects but one. The defendant contended at the trial, and now contends, that the tract assessed contained eight lots, and that a separate assessment should have been made against each lot, while the contention of the plaintiff was and is that the tract contains only one lot for assessment purposes., and that it was properly assessed as one lot. The court took the latter view of the matter, and by its judgment upheld the assessment. From this judgment the defendants appeal, and they assign for error that the judgment of the court is erroneous on the admitted facts.
The facts, briefly stated, are as follows. The defendant corporation leased the tract of land in 1872 to one Doll for a term of ten years, with the privilege of four