City of St. Louis v. United Rys. Co.

• Decision Date: 19 December 1914
• Docket Number: No. 17526.,No. 17524.,No. 17570.,No. 17528.,No. 17527.,17524.,17526.,17527.,17528.,17570.
• Citation: 174 S.W. 109,263 Mo. 507
• Parties: CITY OF ST. LOUIS v. UNITED RYS. CO.
• Court: Missouri Supreme Court

174 S.W. 109

263 Mo. 507

CITY OF ST. LOUIS v. UNITED RYS. CO.

No. 17524.

No. 17526.

No. 17527.

No. 17528.

No. 17570.

Supreme Court of Missouri.

December 19, 1914.

Rehearing Denied January 25, 1915.

In Banc. Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court; Daniel D. Fisher, Judge.

Action by the City of St. Louis against the United Railways Company of St. Louis. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Affirmed.

H. S. Priest, of St. Louis, and Herbert S. Hadley, of Kansas City (Morton Jourdan and T. E. Francis, both of St. Louis, of counsel), for appellant. William E. Baird and Truman P. Young, both of St. Louis, for respondent.

WALKER, J.

The five cases above numerically designated and identical as to the respective parties thereto involve the same issues and are determined by the same principles of law declared by this court in case numbered 17254, and entitled City of St. Louis, Respondent, v. United Railways Co., Appellant, 174 S. W. 78, decided at this term. The judgments, therefore, in said cases numbered 17524, 17526, 17527, 17528, and 17570, are affirmed, for the reasons stated in said case numbered 17254. And it is so ordered.

LAMM, C. J., and WOODSON and BROWN, 33., concur. GRAVES, J., dissents, in an opinion filed in 17254, in which BOND and FARIS, JJ., concur.