Hays v. City of Poplar Bluff
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Wayne Circuit Court. — Eon. E. M. Declaring, Judge. (1) Even though this court may believe and hold that while section 9228 confers authority upon cities of the third class to enact an ordinance prescribing fire limits and absolutely prohibiting the erection of inflammable buildings therein, but that said section confers no authority upon such cities to regulate the construction of buildings therein, .still the ordinance in question is not invalid and should not…
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Appeal from Wayne Circuit Court. — Eon. E. M. Declaring, Judge. (1) Even though this court may believe and hold that while section 9228 confers authority upon cities of the third class to enact an ordinance prescribing fire limits and absolutely prohibiting the erection of inflammable buildings therein, but that said section confers no authority upon such cities to regulate the construction of buildings therein, .still the ordinance in question is not invalid and should not be declared void, for the reason that the portion of the ordinance providing for the regulation of buildings in the fire…
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, C.
The petition was filed in the circuit court for Butler county, March 26, 1910, impleading with the city, as defendant, George Luther, its street commissioner. It states that on April 27, 1908, the defendant city, by its city council, granted plaintiff permission to erect a building of wood and iron on the west half of lot sixty-one in said city, of which he was seized as owner. That on. the 20th day of September, 1909, the mayor and council granted him the further permission to construct on said building, which had then been erected, an iron roof, which he constructed in accordance…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- State v. . TenantSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1892
- City of Richmond v. DudleyIndiana Supreme Court · 1891
- City of Newton v. BelgerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
- City of St. Louis v. RussellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- Boyd v. Board of CouncilCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1903
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