GOODSON v. CITY OF FERGUSON

Nos. 47977-47979.

339 S.W.2d 841 (1960)

Roy A. GOODSON and Pauline A. Goodson, his wife, and Curtis L. King and Bonnie M. King, his wife, et al., Individually and as Class Representatives, Appellants, v. CITY OF FERGUSON, a Municipal Corporation, Robert C. Storey, City Manager of City of Ferguson, and John A. Thompson, Gerald C. Reid, Clarence F. Bartelsmeyer, John V. Shepardson, Tom Alwood, Robert G. Haddenhorst and Raymond Dussold, as Council Representatives of the City of Ferguson, Respondents. Ben F. WRIGHT and Ida M. Wright, his wife, and Oliver F. Dahl and Pearl K. Dahl, his wife, Individually, and as Class Representatives, Appellants, v. CITY OF FERGUSON, a Municipal Corporation, Robert C. Storey, City Manager of City of Ferguson, and John A. Thompson, Gerald C. Reid, Clarence F. Bartelsmeyer, John V. Shepardson, Tom Alwood, Robert G. Haddenhorst and Raymond Dussold, as Council Representatives of the City of Ferguson, and Municipal Contractors, Inc., a Corporation, Miller Brothers Excavating Company, Respondents. Glenn V. HOOKER and Grace R. Hooker, his wife, and Richard C. Hardesty and Laura M. Hardesty, his wife, Individually and as Class Representatives, Appellants, v. CITY OF FERGUSON, a Municipal Corporation, Robert C. Storey, City Manager of City of Ferguson, and John A. Thompson, Gerald C. Reid, Clarence F. Bartelsmeyer, John V. Shepardson, Tom Alwood, Robert G. Haddenhorst and Raymond Dussold, as Council Representatives of the City of Ferguson, and Municipal Contractors, Inc., a Corporation, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

November 14, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Schneider, St. Louis, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Carleno & Nick, Ferguson, Wehrle & Wehrle, Clayton, Michael J. Aubuchon, St. Louis, for respondents.


STOCKARD, Commissioner.

In each of these three cases (consolidated for purposes of appeal) the trial court dismissed plaintiffs' petition for failure to state a claim upon which the requested relief may be granted. If this court has jurisdiction of these appeals it is only because the petitions properly and sufficiently allege facts which present an issue involving the construction of the Constitution of the United States or this state within the meaning of Section...

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