City of St. Louis v. St. Louis Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) This section of the ordinance was originally enacted as ordinance number 5735, approved January 23, 1866, and was repealed by the general assembly by an .act approved February 6, 1866, which last act was itself repealed February 27, 1869, but was re-enacted in the revision of the ordinances March 31, 1871, in its jxresent form, but up to this time no attempt has ever been made to enforce it.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) This section of the ordinance was originally enacted as ordinance number 5735, approved January 23, 1866, and was repealed by the general assembly by an .act approved February 6, 1866, which last act was itself repealed February 27, 1869, but was re-enacted in the revision of the ordinances March 31, 1871, in its jxresent form, but up to this time no attempt has ever been made to enforce it. It became a dead letter by disuse and was abandoned, and its enforcement how would operate unfairly and as a trap. (2) It is, as a section, repugnant to…
1Opinion of the CourtRat, J.
The defendant was prosecuted and fined five hundred dollars before a police justice of the city of St. Louis for refusing to make to the city register the report required by section 11 of article four, of chapter *46thirty-one of the revised ordinances of said city, approved March 29, 1881, which section is as follows :
Section 11. It shall be the duty of each and all of the street railroad companies in the city of St. Louis to report under oath to the city register, between the first and fifteenth days of the months of July, October, Jan-nary and April of each year, by the president, secretary,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- State ex rel. Edwards v. BartlettSupreme Court of Missouri · 1878
- St. Louis Railroad v. South St. Louis RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1880
- City of St. Louis v. St. Louis RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1883
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- Town of Kirkwood v. Meramec Highlands Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1902
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