City of St. Louis v. Public Service Commission

• Decision Date: 30 December 1918
• Docket Number: No. 21074.,21074.
• Citation: 207 S.W. 805
• Parties: CITY OF ST. LOUIS v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION et al.
• Court: Missouri Supreme Court

207 S.W. 805

CITY OF ST. LOUIS v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION et al.

No. 21074.

Supreme Court of Missouri, in Banc.

December 30, 1918.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Cole County; J. G. Slate, Judge.

Action by the City of St. Louis against the Public Service Commission and another. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal. Reversed and remanded.

H. S. Priest and T. E. Francis, both of St. Louis (Morton Jourdan, of St. Louis, of counsel), for appellant United Rys. Co.

A. Z. Patterson and J. D. Lindsay, both of Jefferson City, for appellant Public Service Commission.

Charles H. Danes and H. A. Hamilton, both of St. Louis, for respondent.

WOODSON, J.

This case involves the same facts, and presents the same legal propositions, that were involved in the case of City of St. Louis v. Public Service Commission, 207 S. W. 799, decided at the present sitting of this court. The rulings in that case are controlling in this one.

For the reasons therein stated, the judgment of the circuit court in this case will also be reversed, and the cause remanded.

FARIS, WALKER, and GRAVES, JJ., concur.

BOND, C. J., concurs in separate opinion, in which FARIS, BLAIR, and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur.