Robinson v. City of St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Si. Louis Land Court. This was an action commenced to enforce a mechanic’s lien on the engine house of the Liberty Fire Engine Company of St. Louis. The said company and the city of St. Louis were defendants. A judgment by default was rendered against the company. At the trial the plaintiff adduced in evidence ordinance No. 3595 of the city of St. Louis.
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Appeal from Si. Louis Land Court. This was an action commenced to enforce a mechanic’s lien on the engine house of the Liberty Fire Engine Company of St. Louis. The said company and the city of St. Louis were defendants. A judgment by default was rendered against the company. At the trial the plaintiff adduced in evidence ordinance No. 3595 of the city of St. Louis. By the thirteenth section of this ordinance, it is provided among other things as follows : “ Sec. 13. All repairs to engine houses or apparatus amounting to more than the sum of fifty dollars shall, on the certificate of the…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
The thirteenth section of the ordinance establishing and regulating the fire department (Rev. Ord. 1856, p. 438) empowered the inspector of the fire department to order repairs to engine houses where they exceeded in value fifty dollars. In pursuance to this ordinance the inspector made a contract with the plaintiff to repair the Liberty engine house for a sum exceeding fifty dollars. The only point, it seems, made for the city for the reversal of this judgment is, that it does not appear from the face of the contract that it was made by the city. There is no foundation for this objection.…
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