Rourke v. Holmes Street Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Now. Thomas J. Seehorn, Judge. STATEMENT. 'Plaintiffs sued for injuries to their property caused by the building of an electric street railway, asking $35,000 as damages. The judgment was rendered for defendant from which plaintiffs appealed to this court (Rourke v. Railroad, 221 Mo. 46) where the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Now. Thomas J. Seehorn, Judge. STATEMENT. 'Plaintiffs sued for injuries to their property caused by the building of an electric street railway, asking $35,000 as damages. The judgment was rendered for defendant from which plaintiffs appealed to this court (Rourke v. Railroad, 221 Mo. 46) where the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded. Upon a retrial, plaintiff had judgment for $5000 on October, 1910, in the circuit court of Jackson county, from which judgment defendant appealed to the Kansas City Court of Appeals. The case was lodged there until…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION.
BOND, J.
(after stating the facts as above).— The question necessarily arising upon the transfer of this case to this court by the Kansas City Court of Appeals, is whether the attempted amendment by the Legislature of 1911 of section 3937 of the Revised Statutes of 1909 is constitutional? In order that the exact relation to each other of the previous act and *558the proposed amendment may appear, we insert that act and the proposed amendment in full with the latter italicized.
“Section 3937. The various courts of appeals of Missouri shall have jurisdiction of appeals and writs of error in…
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