(Download) "City Town and Country v. St. Louis County" by En Banc Supreme Court of Missouri * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: City Town and Country v. St. Louis County
- Author : En Banc Supreme Court of Missouri
- Release Date : January 20, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 79 KB
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The City of Town and Country, Missouri, sought to annex three contiguous parcels of land adjacent to that city. In an appropriate declaratory judgment action brought subsequent to the statutorily required referendums of residents in affected areas, the trial court entered a judgment which approved the annexations. The Court of Appeals reversed on a rationale attributed to the Graeler cases. City of Olivette v. Graeler, 338 S.W.2d 827 (Mo. 1960), Graeler I. City of Olivette v. Graeler, 369 S.W.2d 85 (Mo. 1963), Graeler II. The case was transferred by this Court to determine the present vitality of the Graeler cases, given subsequent legislative enactments concerning annexation proceedings. §§ 71.015, 71.870, RSMo 1978. The Court determines that these statutes have altered application of the holding of the Graeler cases. Under the scope and standard of judicial review applicable to this annexation proceeding, the annexations are valid, and the decision of the trial court is affirmed. All appellants assert in some fashion that the trial court erred by failure to consider the interests of St. Louis County as a whole, either through failure to consider adequately the nature and extent of governmental and residential services offered by the County and City of Town and Country, respectively, or because of its determination that the City had demonstrated that the reasonableness of the annexation was fairly debatable.