Fortune v. City of St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. cited Hawthorn v. City of St. Louis, 11 Mo. 59; 6 Vermont, 121; 12 Conn. 404; 11 Conn. 124 ; 2 Mass. 37; 16 id. 275; 7 Monr. 439.
1Opinion of the CourtEyeand, Judge
James Fortune caused an execution to be issued on a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for St. Louis county, against John Dillon, and had the city of St. Louis summoned as garnishee. At the September term of said court in 1854, said Fortune caused a statement of the grounds on which he had ordered the city to be summoned as garnishee to be filed, and filed also interrogatories for the city to answer. The city demurred to the allegation and interrogatories ; the court sustained the demurrer, and Fortune brings the case here by appeal. The question in this case falls within the principles of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Ward v. County of HartfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1838
- Stillman v. IshamSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1835
- Bradley v. Town of RichmondSupreme Court of Vermont · 1834
- President of the Union Turnpike Road v. JenkinsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1806
3Cited by12 opinions
- Wallace v. LawyerIndiana Supreme Court · 1876
- Brown v. GatesWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1879
- Geist v. City of St. LouisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1900
- Boone County v. KeckSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1876
- Dickinson v. JohnsonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1901
7 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.