Haggerty v. St. Louis Ice Manufacturing & Storage Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Leroy B. Yalliant, Judge. (1) It is the State and not the individual who can complain in such cases as this. Barton v. Ilurdy, 1 Gray, 119; Mott v. Trust Co., 19 Barb. 568; Gold Mining Co. v. Bank, 96 TJ.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Leroy B. Yalliant, Judge. (1) It is the State and not the individual who can complain in such cases as this. Barton v. Ilurdy, 1 Gray, 119; Mott v. Trust Co., 19 Barb. 568; Gold Mining Co. v. Bank, 96 TJ. S. 640;. Nemizer v. Wright, 75 Ya. 239; People v. O’Neil, 7 Mich. 335. (2) When the possession is back of the time when it became unlawful to take game, the presumption has no further force as evidence, and what was then lawful can not be made a crime by lapse of time. Powhatan Steamboat Co. v. Railroad, 24 How. 247.. (3) Did the statute mean…
1Opinion of the CourtShebwood, J.
The business of plaintiffs, resident in St. Louis, was that of dealers in game, while the defendant corporation was engaged in that city in the business of “cold storage,” which embraced the storing and preservation of produce and game of all kinds.
Plaintiffs, during what is known as the “open season,” were accustomed to buy and sell the different kinds of game, and when what is known as the “closed season” was about to arrive, were in the habit of storing such game as remained on their hands until such time as the “open season” again returned, when they would resume their erstwhile…
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