City of Independence v. Deffenbaugh Industries, Inc.

SHANGLER, Judge.

This appeal — as the parties present the issue — is from a judgment entered by a circuit court as an exercise of original jurisdiction on municipal charges of breaches of a city ordinance. The City of Independence cited Deffenbaugh Industries, Inc., with multiple counts of operating a sanitary landfill without the special use permit required by the municipal code.1 The multiple charges were joined by stipulation of the parties in a single information as allowed by Rule 37.36 and presented to the circuit court for trial and judgment. The stipulation also agreed that the…