State Ex Rel. Horn v. Randall

CAVE, Presiding Judge.

This is a certiorari proceeding to test the legality of an order of the county court amending the zoning of a particular 65-acre tract of land located in the unincorporated part of Jackson County. The amendment rezoned the land from District “D” (agricultural) to District “H” (heavy industry).

Jackson County was zoned under authority of Chapter 64, RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S. On August 13, 1952, Hugh Miller and his wife, Martha, filed an application with the Jackson County Planning Commission to rezone the 65-acre tract from District D to District H, “for the proposed use as a…