Board of Education v. City of St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. J. Hugo Grimm, Judge. (1) The Board of Education is a public corporation formed for a special and limited purpose; its charter is found in the statutes, which must he construed by the. same rules as are applied to other statutes. Heller v. Stremmel, 52 Mo. 311; State v. Lockett, 54 Mo. App. 202; Peers v. Board, 72 111. 508; Smith v. Proctor, 130 N. Y. 319; McQuillin, Mun. Corp., sec. 114..
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. J. Hugo Grimm, Judge. (1) The Board of Education is a public corporation formed for a special and limited purpose; its charter is found in the statutes, which must he construed by the. same rules as are applied to other statutes. Heller v. Stremmel, 52 Mo. 311; State v. Lockett, 54 Mo. App. 202; Peers v. Board, 72 111. 508; Smith v. Proctor, 130 N. Y. 319; McQuillin, Mun. Corp., sec. 114.. (2) The property controlled by the board is not owned by the State or used for governmental purposes; the presumption that the sovereign or the State is not…
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, C.
This suit was instituted April 11, 1912, against the defendant city and Stephen IT. Gilmore, its supervisor of plumbing, to obtain an injunction restraining them from interfering with work in course of construction under contract for a new school building in said city to be known as the Horace Mann School. The contract provided for a system of vents from the water-closets known as “a continuous venting system, doing away with all local vents to the fixtures, ’ ’ while a regulation of the Board of Public Improvements of the city of St. Louis provided for a different *359system, requiring…
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