Steinmeyer v. City of St. Louis
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. cited : Shear. & Redf. on Neg., 1st ed., 181, ch. 8, sec. 152 ; 2 Dill, on Mun. Corp., 2d ed., sec. 780; 2 Hill, on Torts, 3d ed., 404, 405, ch. 38, sec. 2 ; West v. Brockport, 16 N. Y. 161, note; Rochester White Lead Co. v. City of Rochester, 3 N. Y. 463; Nevins v. City of Peoria, 41 111. 502; Ellis v. Iowa City, 29 Iowa, 229 ; Const. Mo. 1875, p. 13, art. 2, sec. 10, p. 18, art. 2, sec. 21; Thurston v. City of St. Joseph, 51 Mo. 510.
1Opinion of the CourtHayden, J.
This was an action to recover damages for alleged injury to the goods of the plaintiffs, resulting, it was charged, from negligence of defendant.
The petition alleged that the plaintiffs were, in June, 1875, in possession of a lot, with the building thereon, and cellar under the building, on Rutger Street, in the city of St. Louis, in which building they carried on business as wholesale grocers, they keeping goods in their cellar. The petition further alleges that the “ said defendant, the city of St. Louis, was authorized and empowered by an act entitled ‘An act amendatory of, and…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Mills v. . City of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1865
- McCarthy v. . the City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Thurston v. City of St. JosephSupreme Court of Missouri · 1873
- Imler v. City of SpringfieldSupreme Court of Missouri · 1874
- Wegmann v. City of JeffersonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1875
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- Pfeifer v. Town of LakeAppellate Court of Illinois · 1890