Case Name: The City of Kansas, Appellant, v. O'Shea
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1878-10
Citations: 69 Mo. 51
Docket Number: 
Parties: The City of Kansas, Appellant, v. O’Shea.
Judges: 
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 69
Pages: 51–52

Head Matter:
The City of Kansas, Appellant, v. O’Shea.
Practice in the Supreme Court. Where an information for violation of a city ordinance is fatally defective, the Supreme Court will not reverse a judgment upon it adverse to the city merely because it was prematurely rendered. It would be useless to send the case back to be ultimately dismissed.
Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. H. P. White, J udge.
Wash Adams for appellaut.
Dunlap Freeman for respondent.

Opinion:
Napton, J.
This was an information filed before the city recorder by the deputy of the city attorney, and after a conviction of a violation of an ordinance before the recorder and an appeal to the criminal court, the case was dismissed. This point has already been considered and determined in the case of The City of Kansas v. Flanagan, ante, p. 22, and whatever may be the validity of the objection urged in this case that the appeal was decided at the first term and without notice, it is obvious that it would be useless to send the case back to be ultimately dismissed on the same ground on which it was, as is alleged, prematurely dismissed. Judgment affirmed.
Affirmed.