27 F. 248 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri | 1886
(orally.) In Freund against Yaegerman there is a petition for a rehearing. The case comes clearly within the line of the eases heretofore decided in this court, commencing with Martin v. Hausman, 14 Fed. Rep. 160, and ending with Clapp v. Nordmeyer, 25 Fed. Rep. 71. In the course of the various opinions that I have had occasion to express, I have stated fully my own views, ^nd the reasons why, in deference to the opinions of the other judges in this district, including the presiding justice, I have made those decisions. In the last, or next to the last, of those eases I stated that that would be the rule of this court until there had been an authoritative declaration by the supreme court of the United States or the supreme court of the state of Missouri to the contrary. Now there is presented a decision of the Kansas City court of appeals which it is claimed enunciates views different from those announced heretofore, and in harmony with the opinions that I pers.onally hold, and I am asked to reverse the line of decisions here. That is not an authoritative exposition of the law in Missouri. The St. Louis court of appeals may rule one way and the Kansas City court of appeals another. There is but the one authoritative expounder of the Missouri statutes in this state, and that is your supreme court. So the petition for the rehearing will be denied.
