Beatty v. Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District

PRICE, Judge.

In Beatty v. Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, 867 S.W.2d 217, 221 (Mo. banc 1993) (Beatty II), this Court declared that a rate increase by the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (“MSD”) violated article X, § 22(a) of the Missouri Constitution. On remand, the St. Louis County Circuit Court, for the first time, found that the suit was brought by the three individual plaintiffs as a “representative taxpayer suit” and ordered MSD to credit all of its customers’ periodic bills as a method of refund. We reverse in part and remand. This lawsuit was not prosecuted by plaintiffs…