State ex rel. Industrial Home for Girls v. Pike County
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Pike Circuit Court. — Hon. Reuben P. Roy, Judge. (1) It devolves upon respondents to show that the law creating the Industrial Home is unconstitutional.
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Appeal from Pike Circuit Court. — Hon. Reuben P. Roy, Judge. (1) It devolves upon respondents to show that the law creating the Industrial Home is unconstitutional. State v. Addington, 77 Mo. 110. (2) The legislature has the right under the police power of the State to create eleemosynary institutions; to protect society and to regulate the morals of infant criminals and make them better men and women — just as it has the right to maintain penitentiaries, jails and almshouses. This institution, to save fallen girls and those who have tendencies to go wrong, should appeal the more to the…
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
The State Industrial Home for Girls seeks to compel, by mandamus, the county court of Pike county to pay for the support, from May 31, 1894, to January 8, 1897, of an inmate of said institution sent there from said county. The sole ground for resisting payment is the alleged invalidity of the act of the legislature, under which the girl, for whose support the claim is presented, was “apprenticed” to said Industrial Home. We have, therefore, only to determine whether said act is constitutional. The circuit court decided this question in the negative, and held that the county was not liable.…
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- State v. BullingSupreme Court of Missouri · 1889
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