Hagerman v. City of St. Louis

BOHLING, C.

[624] Lewis B. Hagerman and Herman Sparber, licensed auctioneers of the city of St. Louis, instituted this action for a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief to test the constitutionality of St. Louis ordinance provisions regulating the “retail auction sales of jewelry, watches, clocks or silverware.” The trial court held the provisions unconstitutional and void. The plaintiffs pleaded that the questioned ordinance provisions contravene § 40(30), Art. Ill, Mo. Const. 1945, prohibiting special laws (the section applies to city ordinances — McKaig v. Kansas City, 363 Mo. 1033,…