City of Creve Coeur v. Huddleston

CLEMENS, Commissioner.

The plaintiff City of Creve Coeur, a city of the fourth class in St. Louis County, sought a declaratory judgment under the so-called Sawyers Act (§ 71.015, V.A.M.S.), authorizing it to annex an adjoining 700-acre tract. Approximately a hundred representative residents of the area to be annexed were named as defendants. By leave, St. Louis County intervened as an additional defendant. Appellants Edmund T. Allen and Millstone Construction Company, Inc., hereafter called defendants, also intervened, and they alone appeal from the declaratory judgment authorizing the…