Legal Opinion
Stephen T. Burns v. City of Des Peres
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 14, 1976No. 75-1466PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GIBSON, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff, Stephen T. Burns, 1 appeals from the District Court’s 2 granting of a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of three individual defendants — Steve Tapper, Edward Smith and Scott Styles. The remaining 21 defendants were either dismissed prior to trial or were exculpated by a jury verdict in their favor.
The defendant City of Des Peres is a small community of approximately 5,000 persons which is within the suburban reaches of St. Louis, Missouri. As an expanding community in the early 1950’s, Des Peres annexed a rather large portion of land to…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Wood v. StricklandSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Snowden v. HughesSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Village of Belle Terre v. BoraasSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Leif M. Hanson v. Ford Motor Company, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1960
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3Cited by35 opinions
- Mayhew v. Town of SunnyvaleTexas Supreme Court · 1998
- Norbert C. Pearson, Also Known as Spike v. City of Grand Blanc, J. Larry TomlinsonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1992
- Fred B. Shelton Iii, and John Paul Jones, Cross v. City of College Station, Cross-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- City of Lowell v. M & N Mobile Home Park, Inc.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1996
- Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, Inc. v. Citizens for Community ActionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1977
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