City of Plattsburg v. Riley
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Clinton Circuit Court. — Hon. James M. Sandusky, Judge. (1) The power given to cities to extend their corporate limits must be reasonably and properly exercised. Kelly v. Meehs, 87 Mo. 896. (2) It should not impose a burden without a benefit, and the reasonableness of the exercise of such power is a fit'subject of judicial inquiry. Corrigañ v. Cage, 68 Mo. 541; St. Louis v. Weber, 44 Mo. 547; Cooley’s Const.
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Appeal from the Clinton Circuit Court. — Hon. James M. Sandusky, Judge. (1) The power given to cities to extend their corporate limits must be reasonably and properly exercised. Kelly v. Meehs, 87 Mo. 896. (2) It should not impose a burden without a benefit, and the reasonableness of the exercise of such power is a fit'subject of judicial inquiry. Corrigañ v. Cage, 68 Mo. 541; St. Louis v. Weber, 44 Mo. 547; Cooley’s Const. Lim., sec. 500; Covington v. Authur, 14 S. W. Rep. 121. (1) The extension of corporate boundaries is a legislative question, over which courts have no control. Walden v.…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, P. J.
This case was submitted, to the cir-
cuit court of Clinton county upon the following agreed statement of facts:
First. That, at the dates hereinafter mentioned, plaintiff was, and now is, a city of the fourth class. Second. That, on the fourteenth day of March, 1887, the board of aldermen of said city passed an ordinance, which was on the same day approved by the mayor, which said ordinance was entitled: “An ordinance to extend the city limits.” That it was provided in said ordinance that at the regular city election, to be held on the first Tuesday in April of said year, 1887, there should be…
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