State ex rel. Hawes v. Mason
Supreme Court of Missouri
Mandamus. (1) The Act of March. 15, 1899, is constitutional. Eirst. It is established law that the State has the power to impose a police force upon its municipalities, and compel their support out of the municipal revenues derived from taxation. 1 Dillon on Mun. Oorp. (4 Ed.), secs. 58 and 61; Tiedeman on Mun.
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Mandamus. (1) The Act of March. 15, 1899, is constitutional. Eirst. It is established law that the State has the power to impose a police force upon its municipalities, and compel their support out of the municipal revenues derived from taxation. 1 Dillon on Mun. Oorp. (4 Ed.), secs. 58 and 61; Tiedeman on Mun. Oorp., sec. 18; Cooley on Taxation, p. 481; State ex rel. v. County Oourt of St. Louis County, 34 Mo. 546; Mayor of Baltimore v. State ex rel., 15 Md. 376; People v. Draper, 15 N. T. 532; People v. Mahaney, 13 Mich. 481; State ex rel. v. Hunter, 38 Kan. 578; Police Commissioners v.…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, C. J.
This is an original proceeding commenced in this court by the police commissioners of St. Louis, to obtain a peremptory writ of mandamus against the city auditor of St. Louis to compel him to issue warrants for the payment of the monthly pay-roll and police expenses for the month of August, 1899.
The return alleges the unconstitutionality of the Act of March 15, 1899, under which relators are proceeding as police commissioners, and denies that any appropriation has been made by the city for the payment of this pay-roll. In view of the fact that nearly a thousand peace officers have been…
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