State ex rel. Meriwether v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Phelps Circuit Court. — Hon. C. C. Bland,. Judge. (1) The law of 1887 (p. 34), was repealed in 1889,. and the law as it stood in 1872 was re-enacted. R. S. 1889, sec. 977, Wag. St-at. (1872) p. 1314. (2) The-action of the county court in striking out names to the petition and in changing the metes and bounds set out therein, invalidated the incorporation. 131 Pa.
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Error to Phelps Circuit Court. — Hon. C. C. Bland,. Judge. (1) The law of 1887 (p. 34), was repealed in 1889,. and the law as it stood in 1872 was re-enacted. R. S. 1889, sec. 977, Wag. St-at. (1872) p. 1314. (2) The-action of the county court in striking out names to the petition and in changing the metes and bounds set out therein, invalidated the incorporation. 131 Pa. St. 368. (3) If the order of incorporation had rejected, all the farm lands as surplusage and included in the-order only such lands as were laid out in lots, blocks, streets and alleys, the order would then have been coram…
1Opinion of the Court
Siiebíwoob, J.
The prosecuting attorney of Phelps county filed, ex officio, his information, in which he charges defendant with usurping, intruding into and unlawfully holding and exercising the office and franchise of mayor of the city of Rolla. The substance of the information is the following: “That said city had its corporate existence as a city of the fourth class under articles 1 and 5 of chapter 30 of Revised Statutes, 1889, by virtue of an order of the county court of said county made at its November term, 1890, which order was based upon a petition signed by a majority of the…
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