White v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Pettis Circuit Court.— Hon. Louis Hoffman, Judge. (1) The objection that tlie law is violative of section 53 of article 4 of the Constitution of Missouri, prohibiting the enactment of any local or special law “granting to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive right,, privilege or immunity” is without force for the reason that that provision of the Constitution was not leveled against laws which apply to a portion of the people of the…
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Appeal from Pettis Circuit Court.— Hon. Louis Hoffman, Judge. (1) The objection that tlie law is violative of section 53 of article 4 of the Constitution of Missouri, prohibiting the enactment of any local or special law “granting to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive right,, privilege or immunity” is without force for the reason that that provision of the Constitution was not leveled against laws which apply to a portion of the people of the State as a class. (2) The only ground upon which the statute can be assailed, if at all, is that it is violative of…
1Opinion of the CourtValliant, J.
Plaintiff brought suit by attachment in a justice’s court against one York on a promissory note for $58.40 and interest; the railroad company was summoned as garnishee; there was no personal service of process on York, he was brought in by publication only on the constable’s return of non est, no appearance for him was entered, and nothing of his was reached by the attachment except the debt which the railroad company, the garnishee, owed him. The garnishee by its answer to the interrogatories admitted that it was “indebted to the defendant E. P. York, a married man, the head of a family and…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Hamman v. Central Coal & Coke Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1900
- Humes v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1884
- Daggs v. Orient InsuranceSupreme Court of Missouri · 1896
- State ex rel. Fath v. HendersonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1901
- Geist v. City of St. LouisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1900
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3Cited by11 opinions
- State Ex Inf. Atty. Gen. v. HedrickSupreme Court of Missouri · 1922
- State ex rel. McClintock v. GuinotteSupreme Court of Missouri · 1918
- Miners' Bank v. ClarkSupreme Court of Missouri · 1913
- Thompson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1934
- Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. HouseleySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1913
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