Legal Opinion
Coffin v. City of Lee's Summit
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided April 2, 1962No. 23409 and 23410PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUNTER, Presiding Judge.
Appellants, the City of Lee’s Summit, a fourth class city; Irene Lavery, its City Clerk; Union Construction Company; Miller Fields and Jack Janes, Jr., appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Jackson County holding that Ordinance No. 646 of the City of Lee’s Summit is invalid because Fields and Janes, Aldermen, had “either a direct, personal, financial or pecuniary interest” in its passage.
Respondents, Carter N. Coffin and V. C. Akers, are the owners of property comprising 8.55% of the total area within a designated protest area, and Akers’ portion adjoins the…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Angle v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Van Itallie v. Borough of Franklin LakesSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1958
- Genkinger v. New CastleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
- Aldom v. Borough of RoselandNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1956
- Low v. Town of MadisonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1948
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Sugarloaf Citizens Assoc., Inc. v. GudisCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1990
- Strandberg v. Kansas CitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1967
- Copple v. City of LincolnNebraska Supreme Court · 1979
- Smith v. City of Lee's SummitMissouri Court of Appeals · 1970
- State ex rel. Stewart v. KingMissouri Court of Appeals · 1978
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