City of St. Louis v. Sternberg
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction. ■ Municipal corporations cannot impose taxes unless authorized by the Legislature.— Const. 1875, art. 10, secs. 1, 10; Dill, on Mun. Corp., secs. 605, 606 ; Cooley’s Const.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction. ■ Municipal corporations cannot impose taxes unless authorized by the Legislature.— Const. 1875, art. 10, secs. 1, 10; Dill, on Mun. Corp., secs. 605, 606 ; Cooley’s Const. Lim. 517, 518. The power cannot be inferred. —Ruggles v. Collier, 43 Mo. 375 ; City of St. Louis v. Clemens, 43 Mo. 404; Hitchcock v. City of St. Louis, 49 Mo. 488 ; City of St. Louis v. Laughlin, 49 Mo. 559. Equality and uniformity in taxation. — Simmons v. The Slate, 12 Mo. 174; Cooley’s Const. Lim. 495-499. Payment of taxes cannot be enforced by fine and imprisonment.…
1Opinion of the CourtBaeewell, J.
The city of St. Louis, on September 7, 1877, passed an ordinance, in the following words :
“ Sec. 1. No person shall exercise, within the city of St. Louis, the business or profession of a lawyer, without a license therefor as hereinafter provided.
“ Sec. 2. A lawyer, within the purview of this ordinance, is a person who is put in the place, stead, or turn of another, to manage his matters of law, or whose office is to appear for parties to actions and other judicial proceedings, and to prosecute and defend them in their behalf, and whose authority is derived either from a formal warrant of…
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