Seaman v. Cap-Au-Gris Levee District
Supreme Court of Missouri
Transferred from St. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) The contract for services as engineer made by plaintiff with the board of commissioners was ultra vires and void. Drainage Dist. v. Daudt, 74 Mo. App. 579; Frissell v. Williams, 87 Mo. App. 518; Drainage Dist. v. Jamison, 176 Mo. 557. And warrants or orders issued in payment for services performed under said contract were without consideration and void.
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Transferred from St. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) The contract for services as engineer made by plaintiff with the board of commissioners was ultra vires and void. Drainage Dist. v. Daudt, 74 Mo. App. 579; Frissell v. Williams, 87 Mo. App. 518; Drainage Dist. v. Jamison, 176 Mo. 557. And warrants or orders issued in payment for services performed under said contract were without consideration and void. R. S. 1899', sec. 8343; Gamble v. Gibson, 59 Mo. 585; State to use v. Hunt, 46 Mo. App. 623; Condit v. Fowler, 47 Mo. App. 518; Williams v. Chariton Co., 85 Mo. 645; Galbreath v. Moberly, 85 Mo.…
1Opinion of the Court
WOODSON, J. —
This suit was brought in the circuit .court of Lincoln county, by the plaintiff against the defendant, on sixteen orders or warrants issued by it, payable to him or order, in payment of services performed by him as commissioner and engineer in. the construction of certain levees and ditches in said! drainage district.
The petition contained sixteen counts, each of‘ which alleges the incorporation of the defendant, substantially, as in the first count, that on the 6th day of.’ July, A. D. 1896, by order of its. board of commissioners, and by its legally constituted officers,…
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