City of St. Louis v. Dreisoerner
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction.— Hon. Wilson Taylor, Judge. (1) This ordinance is in flat conflict with. Laws 1871, p. 189, sec. 1. Also see Woerner’s Rev. Code of St. Louis 1907, pp. 170-173, which undertakes to regulate the same subject-matter. The proviso in this ordinance is a curiosity.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction.— Hon. Wilson Taylor, Judge. (1) This ordinance is in flat conflict with. Laws 1871, p. 189, sec. 1. Also see Woerner’s Rev. Code of St. Louis 1907, pp. 170-173, which undertakes to regulate the same subject-matter. The proviso in this ordinance is a curiosity. Apparently it gives the municipal assembly the right to establish nuisances by permit, and thereby ruin the property of others without compensation, whereas the ordinance itself destroys, without compensation, property which is not and could never be a nuisance. City ordinances must…
1Opinion of the Court
BOND, 0.
Defendant is the owner of a two and a half stock brick building on Arsenal street, within six hundred feet of Tower Grove Park, in the city of St. Louis. The building was erected under a permit issued by the building commissioner on October 291, 1907. The testimony tends to show, that subsequent to the ordinance hereinafter referred to it was used by defendant for making altars, chancels and carved wood, such as are used in churches; that the material of which these articles were constructed was prepared at planing mills and delivered at the residence of defendant; that he maintained…
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