City of St. Joseph ex rel. Saxton National Bank v. Landis
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon. Henry M. Ramey, Judge. (1) The entire ordinance should be considered to ascertain the legislative intention. Being ascertained,. the intention will control the interpretation of all the parts. Sutherland on Statutory Construction, sec. 218, 241. (2) The specifications are so full as to leave absolutely no doubt as to the most minute details for the construction of pipe sewers.
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Appeal from the Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon. Henry M. Ramey, Judge. (1) The entire ordinance should be considered to ascertain the legislative intention. Being ascertained,. the intention will control the interpretation of all the parts. Sutherland on Statutory Construction, sec. 218, 241. (2) The specifications are so full as to leave absolutely no doubt as to the most minute details for the construction of pipe sewers. The sufficiency of the same form of specifications was considered by this court in the case of Brick <& Terra Gotta Co. v. Hull, 49 Mo. App. 433, and held sufficient.…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, P. J.
— In this case both plaintiff and.defendant have appealed from the judgment of the circuit court. We will first notice the grounds of the plaintiff’s appeal. It is conceded that the plaintiff is a city of the second class, under the statute.
The plaintiff city by an ordinance under the authority conferred upon it by statute (section 1429, Revised Statutes) established sewer district number 27. And by a subsequent ordinance it was provided in section 1 that: “The city engineer is hereby directed to cause district sewers to be constructed within a portion of sewer district number 27, with all…
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