State ex rel. Town of Kirkwood v. County Court
Supreme Court of Missouri
Mandamus. (1) The relator contends that under the faets in the premises it was the duty of the county court to draw a warrant as applied for. Section 7903a, Revised Statutes, enacted by the legislature March 15, 1897 (see Sess.
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Mandamus. (1) The relator contends that under the faets in the premises it was the duty of the county court to draw a warrant as applied for. Section 7903a, Revised Statutes, enacted by the legislature March 15, 1897 (see Sess. Acts 1897, p. 218). It is the purpose of the law of the State of Missouri governing the improvement • and repair of roads and highways, that incorporated cities and towns should be compelled to take care of their own highways and be relieved from the burden of contributing to all highways beyond their limits. R. S. 1889, sec. 7806, 7814, 8553. Commenting on the first…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
This is an original proceeding by mandamus to compel the county court of St. Louis county to draw a warrant on the road and bridge fund of said county, payable to the treasurer of the town of Kirkwood in said county, for the sum of $218.37, being seventy-five per cent of forty-five per cent of the amount alleged to have been collected by said county during the year 1897, and since the fifteenth day of March of that year, and the twenty-seventh day of September, 1897, as county taxes by the collector of St. Louis county upon property lying within the corporate limits of the town of Kirkwood,…
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