 Missouri sent Clark County, Missouri sheriff to collect taxes in the strip and was arrested.According to legend Missouri tax collectors cut down three trees that had honey bee hives to collect honey in lieu of taxes.State militias from both Missouri and Iowa were called out before the governors eventually agreed to let the Supreme Court decide the case which it did in "State of Missouri v. State of Iowa", 48 U.S. 660 (1849), upholding the Sullivan Line noting that is how it was written in state's constitution.