Knapp, Stout & Co. Company v. City of St. Louis
Citation | 56 S.W. 1102,156 Mo. 343 |
Parties | KNAPP, STOUT & CO. COMPANY v. CITY OF ST. LOUIS et al. |
Decision Date | 15 May 1900 |
Court | United States State Supreme Court of Missouri |
Appeal from St. Louis circuit court.
Suit by the Knapp, Stout & Co. Company against the city of St. Louis and the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works for injunction to restrain the vacation of a street and obstruction thereof. From a ruling sustaining a demurrer to the petition, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
Lubke & Muench, for appellant. B. Schnurmacher and Chas. C. Allen, for appellee city of St. Louis. McKeighan, Barclay & Watts, for appellee Mallinckrodt Chemical Works.
This is a proceeding in equity begun in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis on November 7, 1896, to invalidate an ordinance passed on the 4th day of April, 1891, by the city of St. Louis, vacating a part of Main or First street between Mallinckrodt and Salisbury streets for a distance of one block, and to enjoin the defendants from interfering with said portion of said street, and to require them to remove therefrom certain improvements placed thereon since the passage and approval of the ordinance in question. The petition, omitting the formal parts, is as follows: ...
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