49 Mo. 530 | Mo. | 1872
delivered the opinion of the court.
Most of the questions raised by this record were involved in The City of St. Charles v. Stewart, ante, p. 132. We then considered none of them except the right of appeal to the Circuit Court, and held that it was not granted by the charter of St. Charles" from proceedings to condemn private property for establishing or altering streets, etc. In the case at bar it appears that the proceedings appealed from were had to procure a second condemnation of the same property, the council having refused to confirm the first inquest. For this cause, among others, the defendants, in every stage of the proceedings, moved to dismiss them upon the authority of St. Joseph v. Hamilton, 43 Mo. 282. We can take no action in relation to the proceedings of the council., as they are not properly before us. Those of the Circuit Court, especially in trying the case de novo, were beyond its