City of St. Louis v. Lang
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Jacob Klein, Judge. (1) In these statutory and summary proceedings courts of general jurisdiction stand upon the same footing as those tribunals whose jurisdiction is special and limited.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Jacob Klein, Judge. (1) In these statutory and summary proceedings courts of general jurisdiction stand upon the same footing as those tribunals whose jurisdiction is special and limited. Ellis v. Railroad, 51 Mo. 200; Moses v. Bock Co., 84 Mo. 245; Lind v: Clements, 44 Mo. 540; Leslie v. St. Louis, 47 Mo. 474; Anderson v. Pendleton, 89 Mo. 61; State ex rel. v. Field, 107 Mo. 445. (2) The utmost strictness is required in order to give validity to these proceedings, and unless .upon the face of the proceeding had, it affirmatively appears that…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
On March 18, 1892, the plaintiff city instituted this proceeding, under sections 1815 to 1821, inclusive, Revised Statutes, 1889, to assess the damages and benefits caused by changing the grade of Hickory street between Mississippi and Armstrong avenues.
Prior to that, the city, on'the eighteenth of January, 1875, by ordinance number 9295, entitled, “an ordinance to establish the grade of Hickory street between Mississippi avenue and Armstrong avenue,” fixed the grade by establishing the same at a point two hundred and forty-five feet west of the west line of Mississippi avenue, at an…
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