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ST. LOUIS MALLEABLE CASTING CO. V. PRENDERGAST CO., 260 U. S. 469 (1923)
260 U. S. 469U.S. Supreme Court
St. Louis Malleable Casting Co. v. Prendergast Co., 260 U.S. 469 (1923)
St. Louis Malleable Casting Company v.
George C. Prendergast Construction Company
No. 154
Argued December 7, 8, 1922
Decided January 2, 1923
260 U.S. 469
Syllabus
An owner of property within a special sewer district, who connected his premises with the sewer when constructed and availed himself of its benefits, is estopped from maintaining a suit in which, upon the ground that the manner of constituting the district and apportioning the cost infringed his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment, he seeks to cancel the tax bill issued to the contractor against his property. P. 260 U. S. 472.
288 Mo.197 affirmed.
Error to a decree of the Supreme Court of Missouri affirming a decree dismissing a suit brought by the plaintiff in error to cancel a sewer tax bill issued against its property to the defendant construction company. clubjuris