Hovis v. Daves

JOHN C. HOLSTEIN, Judge.

Appellants, eight resident taxpayers of Wayne County, Missouri, filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Wayne County in 1998 seeking to terminate and enjoin the respondent county officials from continuing to impose a sales tax of one-half of one percent for capital improvements approved in an election in 1993. See sec. 67.700.1 The trial judge dismissed the petition. The judgment was appealed to the court of appeals, which transferred the case to this Court. Mo. Const, art. V, secs. 10, 11.

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