Skrainka v. Scharringhausen
Missouri Court of Appeals
8. The jurisdiction of a justice is not confined to the district for which he was elected, and on appeal it is not necessary that the papers should show that his court was held within such district. Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court. Agreements or combinations, the effect of which is to prevent or withdraw competition, are held to be against the policy of the law, and void.— Wiggins Ferry Go. v. Railroad Go., 5 Mo. App. 373 ; Morris Goal Go. v. Goal Go., 68 Pa.
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8. The jurisdiction of a justice is not confined to the district for which he was elected, and on appeal it is not necessary that the papers should show that his court was held within such district. Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court. Agreements or combinations, the effect of which is to prevent or withdraw competition, are held to be against the policy of the law, and void.— Wiggins Ferry Go. v. Railroad Go., 5 Mo. App. 373 ; Morris Goal Go. v. Goal Go., 68 Pa. St. 174; Orawford v. Wick, 18 Ohio St. 190 ; Doolin v. Ward, 6 Johns. 194 ; Stanton v. Allen, 5Denio, 434. Such combinations…
1Opinion of the CourtBake well, J.
On March 19, 1878, defendant, with twenty-three other persons, ownei’S and operators of stone-quarries in that part of the city of St. Louis lying south of Market Street and Manchester Road, signed an agreement, in which they set forth that the great competition then existing had had the tendency of depressing the price of building-rock in the city so as to make it impossible to work quarries at a profit in certain parts of the city; and that, it being desirable to agree on a plan which will secure a fair, proportionate sale *524of the produce of all quarries at uniform prices and living rates,…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Arnot v. . Pittston and Elmira Coal Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1877
- Craft v. McConoughyIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
- Long v. TowlSupreme Court of Missouri · 1868
- Presbury v. Fisher & BennettSupreme Court of Missouri · 1853
- Wiggins Ferry Co. v. Chicago & Alton RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1878
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