Hillig v. City of St. Louis

Appellants brought this suit in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis seeking an injunction to restrain respondents from proceeding to award and perform a contract between the City of St. Louis and Skrainka Construction Company for paving a public alley in St. Louis and to restrain respondents from levying a special tax against appellants’ property on account of the proposed improvement. A general demurrer was filed to the petition by all the defendants and this demurrer was sustained by the trial court. The sole ground of the demurrer was that the petition failed to state facts…