Board of Commissioners v. Shields
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. I. A corporation connected with an existing municipal corporation, and constituted for the purpose of carrying out some of the known objects of the municipality, is a corporation for municipal purposes, and thus within the exception of Art. Till, § 4 of the Constitution of I860. (State ex rel. Chouteau vs. Leffingwell, 54 Mo. 458-472; The People ex rel.
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. I. A corporation connected with an existing municipal corporation, and constituted for the purpose of carrying out some of the known objects of the municipality, is a corporation for municipal purposes, and thus within the exception of Art. Till, § 4 of the Constitution of I860. (State ex rel. Chouteau vs. Leffingwell, 54 Mo. 458-472; The People ex rel. South Park Commissioners vs. Salomon, 51 111., 37; Horton vs. Mobile School Commissioners, 43 Ala,. N. S. 598, 607.) II. Respondents having dealt with the corporation as such cannot object to the validity…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
In this case the defendants seek to draw in question the validity of the act incorporating the plaintiff, approved March 14, 1872. (Sess. Acts 1871-2., p. 466.) ' The plaintiff filed its petition in the circuit court stating that it was a corporation for municipal purposes, and it alleged that certain blocks of laud and the streets and alleys running through the same, being the territory described in the act of incorporation, were at and anterior to the 18th day of April, 1872, in such a eon*249dition as to be a public nuisance, and were thereupon, on the last named day, in conformity with the…
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