City of St. Louis v. Allen
Supreme Court of Missouri
ERROR TO ST. LOUIS CIRCUIT COURT. The defendant in error filed his hill of equity at the November term, 1846, of the St. Louis Circuit Court, against the city of St. Louis, plaintiff in error, to restrain the said- city, its officers and agents, from selling certain lands for taxes, assessed therein by said city, and praying for general relief, &c.
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ERROR TO ST. LOUIS CIRCUIT COURT. The defendant in error filed his hill of equity at the November term, 1846, of the St. Louis Circuit Court, against the city of St. Louis, plaintiff in error, to restrain the said- city, its officers and agents, from selling certain lands for taxes, assessed therein by said city, and praying for general relief, &c. The hill sets forth the locality and description of the lands and property, and the rights and interests therein, of the defendant in error, that said lands and property were wholly without the city limits, prior to the passage of the act of…
1Opinion of the CourtHarton, J.
The first question I shall examine in this case, is whether the 17th section of the 7th article of the charter of St. Louis, approved February 15, 1841, was continued in force bv the .act of February 8, 1843. The 24th section of the last article of the last named act contained this provision : “All acts and parts of acts, contrary to and inconsistent with the provisions of this act, or within the purview thereof, except the seventeenth section of the act entitled ‘an act to amend an act to incorporate the city of St. Louis,’ approved 8th Feb., 1839, are hereby repealed.”
The act of 1841, which…
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