City of St. Joseph v. Anthony
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Buchanan Court of Common Pleas. This was an action to recover one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seven cents, the amount apportioned to the defendant as his share of the cost of macadamizing the street in front of his lot in the city of St. Joseph.
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Appeal from Buchanan Court of Common Pleas. This was an action to recover one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seven cents, the amount apportioned to the defendant as his share of the cost of macadamizing the street in front of his lot in the city of St. Joseph. The petition alleges the incorporation of plaintiff by the charter granted February 22, 1851; sets forth the amendment of the charter approved November 21, 1857, empowering it to macad-’ amize the streets and directing that the cost thereof should be borne by the owners of the adjoining property, and apportioned and charged on the…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
The principal point upon which this case is brought here has been several times before this court. In the case of In*542habitants of Palmyra v. Morton, 25 Mo. 594, and Egyptian Levee Co. v. Hardin, 27 Mo. 495, and Gantt v. City of St. Louis, 25 Mo. 505, the question was discussed and determined. The judgment of the court of common pleas must therefore be reversed.
Upon the trial of this case, all the evidence offered by the plaintiff was excluded. This course was taken, we presume, upon the ground that the act of the legislature authorizing the city authorities of St. Joseph to-cause the streets…
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