State ex rel. St. Joseph Water Co. v. Eastin
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon. Thomas B. Allen, Judge. (1) The ordinance extending the city limits, if given the effect declared by the judgment below, is such, an exercise of legislative power delegated by the General Assembly, as may properly he considered a law within the meaning of the provision of the Constitution forbidding the impairment of contracts. Fed. Stat. Ann., vol. 8, p. 863, art. 1, sec. 10, par. b.
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Error to Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon. Thomas B. Allen, Judge. (1) The ordinance extending the city limits, if given the effect declared by the judgment below, is such, an exercise of legislative power delegated by the General Assembly, as may properly he considered a law within the meaning of the provision of the Constitution forbidding the impairment of contracts. Fed. Stat. Ann., vol. 8, p. 863, art. 1, sec. 10, par. b. (2). The effect of the passage of the ordinance passed and approved by the city of St. Joseph, July 6, 1909, as construed by the judgment in this case is to impair the…
1Opinion of the CourtFaris, J.
— This is a proceeding by mandamus which comes to us on the writ of error of relator who was cast below, to compel defendants, who are defendants in error here, to audit and pay a certain account alleged to be due plaintiff in error for water delivered to State Hospital No. 2, of which defendants in error compose the board of managers.
The facts are few and simple. Those upon which the case turns, run thus: Relator, St. Joseph Water Company, is a public service corporation, organized under the laws of the State of Missouri. In the year 1900 an ordinance was passed, ratified by an election and…
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