City of Alton v. COUNTY COURT OF ST. CHARLES CTY., MISSOURI

This is an appeal by the State of Missouri and the State Highway Commission of Missouri from a decree of the city court of the city of Alton. The decree discharged the receiver of the Clark Bridge which crosses the Mississippi River from Alton, Illinois, to St. Charles County, Missouri, and approved his final report. On this direct appeal the appellants, who were not parties to the action in the trial court, seek to challenge certain orders relating to the payment of attorney’s fees by the receiver. In our disposition of the case we reach only procedural problems that relate to the propriety…