Quinn v. Buchanan

HYDE, Judge.

Plaintiffs’ petition for both preventive and mandatory injunctive relief and actual *416and punitive damages, in excess of $30,-000.00, based on violation of Sec. 29, Article I, 1945 Constitution, V.A.M.S., was dismissed for the reason (stated in the motion to dismiss) that it did not state a claim upon which relief could be granted because the constitutional provision is not self-executing. Plaintiffs appealed from this judgment of dismissal. The case was transferred to the Court en Banc by Division No. 2 where it was first heard.

The facts alleged in the petition and the relief…