State ex rel. Crow v. City of St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. D. D. Fisher, Judge. (1) Tbe ordinance in controversy is a relief ordinance, and as sucb is beyond tbe powers of tbe assembly. Sec. 30, art. 3, Charter of St. Louis; sec. 41, art. 4, Constitution; sec. 3, art. 10, Constitution; Hitchcock v. St. Louis, 49 Mo. 484; Campbell v. St. Louis, 71 Mo. 106..
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. D. D. Fisher, Judge. (1) Tbe ordinance in controversy is a relief ordinance, and as sucb is beyond tbe powers of tbe assembly. Sec. 30, art. 3, Charter of St. Louis; sec. 41, art. 4, Constitution; sec. 3, art. 10, Constitution; Hitchcock v. St. Louis, 49 Mo. 484; Campbell v. St. Louis, 71 Mo. 106.. (2) Construed as defendant contends, it is void because in sucb case its subject is not even mentioned, mucb less clearly expressed, in its title. Sec. 13, art. 3, Charter of St. Louis; State ex rel. v. St. Louis, 161 Mo. 371. (3) (a) Thus construed,…
1Opinion of the CourtBeace, P. J.
— This is a suit in equity by the Attorney-General *to restrain the treasurer of the city of St. Louis from paying out of the treasury of said city the sum of one thous- and and fifty dollars, pursuant to an ordinance of said city adopted on April 28, 1896, which ordinance is as follows:
“An ordinance for the relief of O. W. RutledgeF. W. Mott, William O. Wire, Al. Wenzlicl'iJ J. O. Zimmerer and F. Louis Soldán.
“Whereas, O. W. Eutledge, E. W. Mott, William O. Uhre, Al. Wenzlieh, J. G. Zimmerer and F. Louis Soldán did lay, under the inspection of the water department, a six-inch cast-iron…
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