Binger v. City of Independence

JAMES A. FINCH, Jr., Senior Judge.

This is an appeal in a declaratory judgment suit wherein plaintiffs, as representatives of a class of objecting property owners, sought a declaration that annexations by the City of Independence of five contiguous areas in which plaintiffs reside were unreasonable and therefore void. The trial court held that plaintiffs were entitled to maintain the class action, that all of the annexations were unreasonable and voidable and that they should be set aside as requested by plaintiffs. On appeal the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, reversed, holding…