City of Springfield v. Smith
Supreme Court of Missouri
Transferred from St. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) The ordinances granting powers and franchises to the Citizens’ Railway Company and the Woodland Heights Rapid Transit Improvement Company constitute contracts between the city and those companies, and the benefit of these contracts has passed to the Metropolitan Electric Street Railway Company. City of Kansas v. Corrigan, 86 Mo. 67; Cooley, Const.
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Transferred from St. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) The ordinances granting powers and franchises to the Citizens’ Railway Company and the Woodland Heights Rapid Transit Improvement Company constitute contracts between the city and those companies, and the benefit of these contracts has passed to the Metropolitan Electric Street Railway Company. City of Kansas v. Corrigan, 86 Mo. 67; Cooley, Const. Lim., p. 198; Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheaton, 518. (2) The ordinances, chapter 15, sections 7 and 21, are void as to the franchises and rights of the Metropolitan Electric Railway Company in…
1Opinion of the CourtBe ace, J.
The plaintiff is a city of the third class, with express power, by ordinance, to grant the right to any person or corporation to make and construct street railroads in any street in said city, and to regulate and control the use thereof (R. S. 1889, sec. 1576) ; to levy and collect a license tax on “street railroad cars” operated by any corporation (1) sec. 1506), and to levy and collect taxes for general revenue purposes on all mixed, personal and real property within the limits of the city taxable according to the laws of the State (1) sec. 1495).
The defendant is the general manager and…
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