Inhabitants of Schell City v. L. M. Rumsey Manufacturing Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Vernon Oircioit Qourt. — Hon. D. P. STRATTON, Judge. In 1883 .the trustees of the village of Schell City ordered a village fire engine of defendant, L. M. Rumsey Manufacturing Company, a corporation doing business in -St. Louis, Missouri, the price of which was eight hundred and three dollars.
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Appeal from the Vernon Oircioit Qourt. — Hon. D. P. STRATTON, Judge. In 1883 .the trustees of the village of Schell City ordered a village fire engine of defendant, L. M. Rumsey Manufacturing Company, a corporation doing business in -St. Louis, Missouri, the price of which was eight hundred and three dollars. The engine was duly shipped and tested in Schell City, and a part of the purchase price, five hundred dollars, -was paid as soon as found satisfactory, and a warrant for the balance, three hundred and three dollars, issued to defendant, payable at -a future date. In April, 1883, about…
1Opinion of the CourtGill, J.
The substance of this controversy may be thus briefly stated: The officers of the village of Schell City (acting as they thought for the village) purchased from the defendant, Rumsey Manufacturing Company, a fire engine at the price of eight hundred and. four dollars. The engine was delivered to the village who paid on the purchase price the sum of five hundred dollars. Schell City subsequently refusing to pay the remainder due on the engine, the Rumsey Company brought suit (21 Mo. App. 175), and therein was defeated because such purchase was not authorized by an ordinance duly passed. The…
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