(DOWNLOAD) "Kansas City Terminal Railway Company V." by Supreme Court of Missouri Division 2 * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Kansas City Terminal Railway Company V.
- Author : Supreme Court of Missouri Division 2
- Release Date : January 13, 1965
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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This appeal involves a declaratory judgment action by plaintiff on its own behalf and as representative of a class, seeking to have Chapter 291 1 declared inapplicable to railroads, or, in the alternative, that the provisions of that chapter were repealed by implication by the enactment of the Public Service Commission Law in 1913. The trial court sustained plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, holding that the suit was maintainable as a class action, that Chapter 291 was inapplicable to plaintiff and other railroads similarly situated as a class, and that defendants should be enjoined from inspecting railroads or charging them an inspection fee. Defendants appealed. We have jurisdiction on the basis of the fact that state officers are parties and the constitutionality of statutes is in issue. The facts as established by the pleadings and evidence offered on the motion for summary judgment are as follows: Plaintiff is a Missouri railroad corporation. The Director of Industrial Inspection of Missouri, one of the defendants, through his agents, inspected plaintiff's premises at the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri. The Director then ordered plaintiff to pay the fee for such inspection prescribed by § 291.130 in the amount of $39.00. The premises of plaintiff which were inspected consisted of portions of the offices, the sub-basement facilities, and the docks and platforms at Union Station in Kansas City. Plaintiff refused to pay the inspection charge on the basis that said Director did not have jurisdiction to make the inspection in question. The Director continued to demand payment, citing an opinion of the Attorney General, expressed an intention to continue the inspection of railroad property in Missouri, and stated that refusal to pay the inspection fee constituted a misdemeanor. The filing of this suit followed.