City of St. Louis v. Calhoun
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. W. M. Kinsey, Judge. (1) The charter provisions under which this action was instituted having' been repealed and there being no saving clause providing for the continuation of suits pending at the time of the adoption of the amendment, the proceedings must fail.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. W. M. Kinsey, Judge. (1) The charter provisions under which this action was instituted having' been repealed and there being no saving clause providing for the continuation of suits pending at the time of the adoption of the amendment, the proceedings must fail. Had the revised charter intended that all proceedings should continue for alley or street openings instituted prior to the date of the amendment going into effect, a saving clause like that under article 16, section 4, of the Scheme and Charter, would have been inserted. Com. v.…
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
By Ordinance No. 20280 the Municipal Assembly of the city of St. Louis established a fifteen-foot alley through City Block No. 1307, the south line of said alley to be one hundred and thirty-five feet south of the south line of Geyer avenue. City Block No. 1307 is bounded on the north by Geyer avenue; on the south by Allen avenue; on the west by Longfellow boulevard, and on the east by Nebraska avenue. Defendant, Caroline E. Calhoun, is the owner of lots 1, 2, 23 and 24 in said city block, which are used as one tract and in one inelosure, having a fifty-foot front on Geyer avenue. Back forty…
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