State Ex Rel. City of Blue Springs v. Nixon

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Chief Justice.

Relator City of Blue Springs (“City”) seeks a writ of prohibition requiring Respondent, the Honorable W. Stephen Nixon, to grant its motion for summary judgment on claims brought against the City by Blue Springs residents Shawn and Jennifer Stevens. The Stevenses allege that the City is liable to them under a theory of inverse condemnation because the City approved the plat of the development in which their property is located and that plat failed to provide sufficiently for drainage of storm water runoff from the homes located higher on the hill on which the…