City of Lake Saint Louis v. City of O'Fallon

LAURA DENVER STITH, Judge.

The city of Lake Saint Louis appeals the trial court’s dismissal of its petition for declaratory judgment that certain disputed property is within its boundaries and that the city of O’Fallon’s attempted annexation of it is invalid. O’Fallon filed a motion to dismiss on the basis that Lake St. Louis had no authority to seek a declaratory judgment because the sole mechanism for determining whether its annexation of the disputed property was proper is to have the attorney general or prosecuting attorney of St. Charles County file a quo war-ranto action. The trial court…