Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 88

Public Works and Special Assessments Therefor--Condemnation

←88.856

Section 88.858.1

88.861→

August 28, 2015

Names of landowners not required in tax bills--parties to action on, assignment--petition in action, contents.

88.858. No special tax bill need give the name of any party owning or

interested in any land charged and bound by the lien; and before suit the

owner of any part in severalty, or of any undivided interest in any land

charged by any tax bill, may pay his share separately, in which case his part

or interest shall not be further liable in case of suit. All or any of the

owners of the land charged, or of any interest or estate therein, may be made

defendants in any suit, but only the right, title, interest and estate of the

parties made defendant in any suit shall be affected or bound thereby, or by

the proceedings therein. In case any owner of the land, or of any interest

therein, shall be unknown, or a nonresident of the state, suit under this

section may be brought against the owner separately or together with others,

and the unknown or nonresident owner may be proceeded against and charged by

giving notice, either by publication in a newspaper or otherwise, as in suit

in the circuit court to enforce any other lien on land in the county. Every

tax bill, and the lien thereof, shall be assignable, and any assignee may sue

in his own name. It shall be sufficient for the plaintiff, in any suit on

the special tax bill, to plead the making of the tax bill sued upon, giving

the date and contents thereof, and the assignment thereof, if any, and to

allege that the party or parties made defendant own, or claim to own, the

lands charged, or some estate or interest therein, as the case may be, and to

file the tax bill in suit. Special tax bills against different lots or

parcels of land, owned by the same party or parties made defendant, may join

in one suit; but a separate judgment on each tax bill shall be rendered, and

execution shall be issued accordingly.



(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 21)







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