Wagner v. City of St Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.-wHow. Glendy B. Arnold, Judge. (1) The City of St. Louis, is authorized by its charter to regulate all persons and corporations engaged in any business, occupation, profession or trade, and do all things expedient for promoting the comfort, morals, peace, government, welfare and trade of the city or its inhabitants.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.-wHow. Glendy B. Arnold, Judge. (1) The City of St. Louis, is authorized by its charter to regulate all persons and corporations engaged in any business, occupation, profession or trade, and do all things expedient for promoting the comfort, morals, peace, government, welfare and trade of the city or its inhabitants. Charter, art. I. sec. 1, els. 23, 25, 33 and 35. (2) The city, under its police power, may regulate the business of moving property from one location in the city to another by requiring the persons engaged in such business to make report…
1Opinion of the Court
Injunction instituted in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, having for its purpose the perpetual prevention of the enforcement, by the city authorities, of Ordinance No. 28367, designed to regulate the moving of household goods, furniture, pianos, stock, fixtures, equipment, personal property and effects from one location to another within the City of St. Louis, or to or from any location within said city, requiring the owner or person in charge or control of the vehicles used to transport such property, to notify the City Register of such removal, and requiring him to keep…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- City of St. Louis v. WeberSupreme Court of Missouri · 1869
- Gratiot v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- City of St. Louis v. BaskowitzSupreme Court of Missouri · 1918
- City of St. Louis v. DreisoernerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1912
- Grimes v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1904
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- City of New Orleans v. SchickSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
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