Town of Kirkwood v. Johnson

By an act of the General Assembly, approved February 20,1865, “all that district of country known as section one in township 44, north of range 5, east, in the county of St. Louis,” was incorporated “as a town” by the name of “Kirkwood” (Laws 1864-1865, 415), and since has continued to exercise municipal authority by virtue of that act and an act amendatory thereof approved February 27, 1869 (Laws 1859, p. 124).

By the ordinances of said town it is provided that “every person in the town of Kirkwood being the owner or keeper of a dog shall pay a yearly license of one dollar for each dog so…