City of St. Louis v. Robinson

Under the constitutional amendment, establishing and limiting the appellate jurisdiction of this court, the supreme court has exclusive appellate jurisdiction of any cause wherein a political subdivision of the state is a party. The city of St. Louis is a political subdivision of the state, and, as it is the substantial party in the present action, we think that the appeal was improvidently taken to this court. City of St. Louis v. Bowler, 94 Mo. 630; Freeman v. St. Louis Quarry Co., 30 Mo. App. 362; Harman v. City of St. Louis, ante, p. 175. The case of City of St. Louis v. Bowler, supra,…