Legal Opinion

City of Clayton v. Nemours

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided July 3, 1944No. Nos. 39003, 39004PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

We answer the question here presented in the affirmative; that is: A municipality may prohibit, within reasonable limits, the parking of automobiles on a privately owned and maintained street permitted to be used and used by the public at large for vehicular traffic. No issue exists that the ordinance involved is invalid because of any arbitrary or unreasonable exercise of power, if power of enactment existed; the contention being, broadly stated, that constitutional provisions preclude the valid exercise of the attempted power. Much detail of statement may therefore be avoided; but those…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  2. St. Louis Poster Advertising Co. v. City of St. LouisSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
  3. Bellerive Investment Co. v. Kansas CitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1929
  4. Phillips v. HensonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1930
  5. City of Clayton v. NemoursMissouri Court of Appeals · 1942

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. MeierSupreme Court of Missouri · 1965
  2. City of St. Louis v. CookSupreme Court of Missouri · 1949
  3. Strandberg v. Kansas CitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1967
  4. State v. MartinSupreme Court of Missouri · 1953
  5. State Ex Rel. Audrain County v. City of MexicoSupreme Court of Missouri · 1946

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