State ex inf. Ashcroft ex rel. Curators of the University of Missouri v. Town of Weldon Springs Heights

RENDLEN, Judge.

By quo warranto relators challenge respondent’s annexation of some 2000 acres of land in St. Charles County wholly owned by the University of Missouri, a public corporation of the State. Because most of the land involved was employed for farming purposes and unavailable for annexation under § 80.030, RSMo 1969, we hold the annexation void and oust respondent from the area taken.

Respondent, incorporated as a town under chap. 80, towns and villages, Revised Statutes of Missouri, included an area of 63.07 acres prior to the purported annexation. The land it attempted to annex…