Supreme Court of Missouri January 3, 1914 (City of St. Louis v. Glasgow)

WOODSON, P. J.

-The plaintiff, the city of St. Louis, a municipal corporation, organized and incorporated under the laws of this State, and operating under a special charter, instituted this suit in the circuit court of said city, against the defendants, to condemn some thirty-odd acres of land for the use of the waterworks of said city. Said land is particularly described, in the pleadings.