State ex rel. Read v. Weatherby
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Sixth District Court. cited The People v. Utica Ins. Co., 15 Johns. 387, 388; Thompson v. The People, 23 Wend. 567 ; The King v, Leigh, 4 Burrows, 2145 to 2147 ; Art. Ill, Const. Mo. ; People v. Wren. 4 Scam. 269 ; Sloan v. State, 8 Blackf. 361; Cheney y. Hosier, 7 Mun. 334 ; State y.
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Error to Sixth District Court. cited The People v. Utica Ins. Co., 15 Johns. 387, 388; Thompson v. The People, 23 Wend. 567 ; The King v, Leigh, 4 Burrows, 2145 to 2147 ; Art. Ill, Const. Mo. ; People v. Wren. 4 Scam. 269 ; Sloan v. State, 8 Blackf. 361; Cheney y. Hosier, 7 Mun. 334 ; State y. McBride, 4 Mo. 303 ; Dartmouth College case, 4 Wheat. 518. cited Betts v. The City of Wil-liamsburgh, 15 Barb. 255 ; Wood v. Peake, 8 Johns. 69 ; 3 Hill. 243 ; Griffith v. Bogart, 18 How. 158; Wyman et al. v. Campbell, 6 Porter, 219; 9 Wend. 382; 8 Wend. 645 ; Fry v. Bennett, 5 S&ndf. 54; Garman et al.…
1Opinion of the CourtCurrier, Judge
This is a proceeding in the nature of a writ of quo warranto. The information alleges that the defendants have “unlawfully usurped, and are now wrongfully holding and exercising the franchise of passing ordinances providing for the levy of taxes on the property of the inhabitants” of the town or village of Shelbina, in the county of Shelby, under the false pretense that the “inhabitants of said town are a body politic and corporate, under and by virtue of the provisions of chapter 41 ” of the General Statutes of the State of Missouri; that the defendants are also, in like manner, unlawfully…
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