Ingle v. City of Fulton

DEW, Judge.

Plaintiff Mary Hughes' Ingle and plaintiffs Clyde and Walter Pierson, co-partners, were the owner and lessees, respectively, of a certain tract of land, part of which lies within the city limits of the City of Fulton, Missouri. Their petition herein seeks to enjoin the defendant from enforcing its ordinance prohibiting the operation of prospecting and mining for fire clay under a lease entered into by the plaintiffs. The defendant answered, whereupon the plaintiffs moved for judgment on the pleadings, which motion was sustained. The defendant appealed to the Supreme Court of…