Union Electric Co. v. Toulouse

SEILER, Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal of six separate tax recovery cases tried in the Jefferson County circuit court. The trial court rendered a single monetary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs for an amount which was less than the total prayed for and all plaintiffs appealed. The action lies within our exclusive appellate jurisdiction because it involves the construction of § 137.073,1 a revenue law of this state. Mo.Const., Art. V, § 3.

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The taxpayers — three regulated utility companies, Union Electric Company, Lac-lede Gas Company and Southwestern Bell Telephone Company — and three…