Clark v. Grand Lodge of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

The plaintiffs brought this suit in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. The case comes to this court on plaintiffs' appeal from the judgment of that court sustaining defendant's demurrer to plaintiffs' petition and adjudging that plaintiffs take nothing by their suit. The demurrer is in the usual and standard form, reciting that defendant "comes" into court and demurs to plaintiffs' petition and each count thereof for the reasons therein stated. The questions raised by the demurrer are the only ones to be considered by this court.

We make this preliminary statement for the reason that…