Glasgow v. City of St. Louis
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Lubke, J. Under the charter and ordinances of the city of St. Louis, then in force, the relinquishment of Papin Street, by the Glasgows, in 1854, gave the city the same rights thereto as in case of ordinary streets, and among others the right to abolish the same. — Kimball v. Kenosha, 4 Wis. 321; Gray v. Iowa Land Go., 26 Iowa, 387. When ordinance 12,457 was passed, the charter of St. Louis had been amended so as to give the city…
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Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Lubke, J. Under the charter and ordinances of the city of St. Louis, then in force, the relinquishment of Papin Street, by the Glasgows, in 1854, gave the city the same rights thereto as in case of ordinary streets, and among others the right to abolish the same. — Kimball v. Kenosha, 4 Wis. 321; Gray v. Iowa Land Go., 26 Iowa, 387. When ordinance 12,457 was passed, the charter of St. Louis had been amended so as to give the city council power to vacate streets (Charter 1876, Art. III., sect. 26 ; subd. 26,Rev. Ord. 1881, p. 122) ; the city council had…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
This is a suit in equity for an injunction to restrain the defendants from stopping up a street in the city of St. Louis. At the hearing the circuit court decreed a perpetual injunction, and the defendants have appealed.
Under appropriate pleadings, the following facts appeared : The defendant, the Shiclde, Harrison & Howard Iron Company, a manufacturing corporation, at and prior to the dates with which we are concerned, was the Owner of all the land fronting ou both sides of Papin Street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets; that all of the block north, and half of the block south of this…
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