Leslie v. City of St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. I. This case comes within the equitable jurisdiction of the court, and the appellant is entitled to equitable relief. The threatened sale, though void, being under color of legal proceedings, would cast a cloud upon appellant’s title to the land, and the courts will interfere to prevent it.
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. I. This case comes within the equitable jurisdiction of the court, and the appellant is entitled to equitable relief. The threatened sale, though void, being under color of legal proceedings, would cast a cloud upon appellant’s title to the land, and the courts will interfere to prevent it. (Lockwood v. City of St. Louis, 24 Mo. 20 ; Eowder v. City of St. Joseph, 37 Mo. 240; Pease v. City of Chicago, 21 111. 500: Uhrig v. The City of St. Louis, 44 Mo. 458.) II. Statutes creating corporations, and authorizing them to divest the title to real property by…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
The appellant’s bill prayed for an injunction to restrain the city of St. Louis from selling certain real estate which had been assessed for benefits upon a pretended condemnation before the *477land commissioner. A. demurrer being interposed and sustained by the court, the allegations in the petition must be taken as confessed. Rut it is not deemed necessary to examine all the charges, as the two leading questions are decisive. These are: first, whether, before instituting proceedings for the condemnation of the property, it was necessary that an attempt should be made with the owner to effect…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Lockwood v. City of St. LouisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1856
- Fowler v. City of St. JosephSupreme Court of Missouri · 1866
- Lind v. ClemensSupreme Court of Missouri · 1869
3Cited by28 opinions
- Verdin v. City of St. LouisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1895
- State ex rel. Kenamore v. WoodSupreme Court of Missouri · 1900
- State ex rel. Circuit Attorney v. County CourtSupreme Court of Missouri · 1873
- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. YoungSupreme Court of Missouri · 1888
- State Ex Rel. Weatherby Advertising Co. v. ConleySupreme Court of Missouri · 1975
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