Tealin Co. v. City of Ladue

BARDGETT, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Tealin Company (Tea-lin), owner of a vacant lot in the city of Ladue, St. Louis county, sued in circuit court to enjoin the enforcement of Ladue’s single-family, residential zoning ordinance as to Tealin’s property on the grounds that the ordinance as applied to Tealin’s property was unreasonable, unconstitutional, unlawful, and void. The circuit court held the ordinance reasonable and denied injunctive relief. On appeal to the Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis district, the judgment of the circuit court was reversed and the cause remanded with…