Ruggles v. Collier
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Circuit Court., The facts of the case, as agreed upon by the parties, appear in the opinion of the court. The question arising in the present case is whether the nineteenth section of the city ordinance establishing and regulating the engineer department is comformable to the city charter.
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Error to St. Louis Circuit Court., The facts of the case, as agreed upon by the parties, appear in the opinion of the court. The question arising in the present case is whether the nineteenth section of the city ordinance establishing and regulating the engineer department is comformable to the city charter. The specific objection made and sustained in the court below was that the section in question amounted to a delegation to the mayor of the legislative power of the council, and the same was for that reason invalid. Consequently, all the work of the contractor was done under the authority…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
This was an action brought in the St. Louis Circuit Court to enforce the payment of a special tax bill issued by the St. Louis city engineer under a street-paving contract.
The petition sets forth, in substance, that the defendants are the proprietors of a lot in block No. 11 in St. Louis, fronting on the south upon Olive street, and on the west upon Commercial street. The petition also sets out verbatim the nineteenth section of an ordinance entitled “An ordinance establishing and regulating the engineer department,” approved August 5, 1864. The *364section is in the following words: Sec. 19. In…
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- Merchants Exchange v. KnottSupreme Court of Missouri · 1908
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