Preisler v. Hayden

HYDE, Justice.

Declaratory judgment action to determine whether the office of License Collector of the City of St. Louis had ceased to exist because of the provisions of Sec. 22, Art. VI of our 1945 Constitution, V. A.M.S. The court found this to be a legal existing office and the laws pertaining to it to be constitutional; and plaintiff has appealed. We have jurisdiction because the construction of constitutional provisions is required.

Sec. 22 of Art. VI provides: “No law shall be enacted creating or fixing the powers, duties or compensation of any municipal office or employment, for any city…