State ex rel. North & South Railway Co. v. Meier

ON MOTION POE EEHEAEINO.

Bland, P. J.

The attempt to dignify the office of president of the council of the city of St. Louis with that of governor of the state of Missouri, and thus bring this case within the reasoning of the opinion in State ex rel. v. Stone, 120 Mo. 428, must fail. Missouri is a sovereign state, with a constitutional form of government, which divides the functions of government into three co-ordinate branches, each independent of the other, and each prohibited from usurping the functions of the others. The city of St. Louis is not a sovereignty; it is but a political…