Legal Opinion

Dollar Savings Bank v. Ridge

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided February 20, 1899PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal from the Jackson Circuit "Court. — Hon. J. H. Slover, Judge. (1) Prior to tbe passage of ordinance number 1801, authorizing the construction of the sewer, no ordinance had been passed prescribing the manner of publishing the mayor’s proclamation calling special sessions of the council; for this reason the special meetings held in June and July, 1890, at which ordinance number 1801 was passed, were illegally called, and no ordinance could be enacted at such meetings.

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1Opinion of the CourtEllison, J.

statement. A question of jurisdiction is presented. Defendants claim that a construction of the constitution of this state is involved in the determination of this cause. Plaintiff denies this. The defendants set up by answer that the constitution of the state was violated in the mode of adoption of the amendments to the charter of Kansas City and that theréfore the amendments are void. The special provision of the constitution is not mentioned but we infer from the brief that it was intended to refer to that portion of the constitution which directs the mode of publication on proposed…

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2Cases cited4 opinions

Forry v. RidgeMissouri Court of Appeals · 1894
Ash v. City of IndependenceSupreme Court of Missouri · 1898
McQuiddy v. VineyardMissouri Court of Appeals · 1895
Dollar Savings Bank v. RidgeMissouri Court of Appeals · 1895

3Cited by4 opinions

Cooper County Bank v. Bank of BuncetonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1925
Seested v. DickeySupreme Court of Missouri · 1927
State ex rel. Case v. WilsonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1910
City of Moberly v. HassettMissouri Court of Appeals · 1907