Wilhoit v. City of Springfield

This is a suit in equity by W. R. Wilhoit and ninety-four other persons as plaintiffs against the City of Springfield, Missouri,, a Municipal Corporation, Harry Carr, its Mayor, Herschel Bennett, its Commissioner of Revenue and Warren J. Hayes, its Chief of Police, as defendants. Judgment for defendants and plaintiffs appeal.

The cause was originally heard at our October, 1942 Term. The-ease was assigned to the writer and an opinion handed down thereon. Both plaintiffs and defendants filed motions for a rehearing which were by the court overruled. Whereupon, the court, on its own motion,…