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STATE v. GAMBLE

No. 44978.

280 S.W.2d 656 (1955)

STATE of Missouri, on the Information of John M. DALTON, Attorney General, ex rel. Arthur B. SHEPLEY, Jr., Relator, v. Clark R. GAMBLE, Irving Edison, Walter L. Metcalfe, Arthur B. Baer, and Frank Aschemeyer, Members of and constituting the Board of Police Commissioners of St. Louis County, Missouri, and Albert B. DuBois, Superintendent of Police of St. Louis County, Missouri, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, en Banc.

June 23, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll J. Donohue, St. Louis, Lynn Meyer, Clayton, for relator.

Herbert C. Funke, Counselor of St. Louis County, Clayton, David L. Millar, St. Louis, for respondents.

Erwin Tzinberg, Clayton, for amicus curiae, Elmer E. Hilpert, University City, of counsel.

STORCKMAN, Judge.

This information in the nature of quo warranto attacks the authority of the newly created police department of St. Louis County to take over and perform the law enforcement functions heretofore vested in the sheriff and constables of St. Louis County. The proceeding, instituted by the attorney general at the relation of the acting marshal and chief of police of the city of Ladue in St. Louis County, is directed against the members of the board of...

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