Case ID: mo_74/html/0055-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Sherwood, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The City of Jefferson, Appellant, v. McCarty.
    Taxes. The City of Jefferson, though it has no lien, may recover an ordinary money judgment for its taxes.
    
      Error to Cole Circuit Court. — Hon. Geo. W. Miller, Judge.
    Reversed.
    
      Edioards $• Davison for appellant.
    
      Botsford Williams and Ewing $■ Hough for respondent.
   Sherwood, C. J.

Though, under the Whipple case, 71 Mo. 519, the city has no lien for its taxes, yet this fact does not deprive it of the right to recover them in this action, notwithstanding it asks, also, that a lien be declared on the land against which the taxes are assessed, and that the land be sold in enforcement of the.lien. The city is entitled to an ordinary recovery, and, therefore, judgment reversed and cause remanded.

All concur.