City of Mt. Vernon v. Garinger

HYDE, Presiding Judge.

Appeal by the State of Missouri Director of the Department of Public Health and Welfare, from a declaratory judgment authorizing annexation by the City of Mt. Vernon of land owned by the State and used for the Missouri State Sanitorium. The judgment was rendered in a proceeding authorized by Sec. 71.015, known as the Sawyers Act. (Statutory references are to RSMo and V.A.M.S.) Our jurisdiction is invoked on the ground that a state officer as such is a party. Sec. 3, Art. V, Const. The Division of Health of the Department of Public Health and Welfare has control over the…