Turner v. Wiederkehr Village

George Rose Smith, Justice.

In 1975 the county court of Franklin county granted a petition for the creation of an incorporated town, to be named Wiederkehr Village. The appellant, a practicing attorney living in the city of Ozark, took an appeal to the circuit court, although he had not been a party to the county court proceeding. The circuit judge sustained the Village’s motion to dismiss Turner’s challenge to the incorporation, on the ground that Turner had no standing to question the county court order. That issue of standing is the only question before us.

Under the statute, “any person…