Ex parte Smith
Supreme Court of Missouri
Habeas Corpus. (1) A local option law that authorizes the people of only a limited portion of the state, or of every portion of the state except specified parts thereof,- to avail themselves of it, is not a valid law, for laws must be made by the Legislature and must be co-extensive with the territorial limits of the state, in respect to the powers conferred or the burdens imposed.
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Habeas Corpus. (1) A local option law that authorizes the people of only a limited portion of the state, or of every portion of the state except specified parts thereof,- to avail themselves of it, is not a valid law, for laws must be made by the Legislature and must be co-extensive with the territorial limits of the state, in respect to the powers conferred or the burdens imposed. (2) Rights guaranteed to a citizen by the Constitution cannot be abridged by legislation under the guise- of a police regulation. (3) The Act of 1903 does not authorize the city to impose any penalty for the…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
The petitioner was fined ten dollars in the police court of St. Louis and imprisoned in the St. Louis city workhouse for carrying on the business of a plumber without having been licensed as required by an ordinance of said city numbered 23007.
*116The specific charge was for a violation of sections five and ten of the said ordinance.
Section five provides that upon satisfactory proof of the qualifications and fitness of the applicant for a plumbing license, a board of examiners of plumbers shall issue to him a certificate, which shall entitle him to engage in or work at the business of plumbing…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- People Ex Rel. Nechamcus v. Warden of the City PrisonNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
- City of St. Louis v. WeitzelSupreme Court of Missouri · 1895
- National Bank of Commerce v. RipleySupreme Court of Missouri · 1901
- State v. SchuchmannSupreme Court of Missouri · 1896
- State ex rel. Winkler v. BenzenbergWisconsin Supreme Court · 1898
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Bellerive Investment Co. v. Kansas CitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1929
- Marshall v. Kansas CitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1962
- Craig v. City of MacOnSupreme Court of Missouri · 1976
- City of St. Louis v. BaskowitzSupreme Court of Missouri · 1918
- Ex Parte Keane v. StrodtmanSupreme Court of Missouri · 1929
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