Rogers v. Brockland

PRICE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County partially vacating a private road.1 The appellants claim that a number of landowners abutting the private road and the other landowners in the Essex Point and Huntington Farms Subdivisions were indispensable parties who should have been joined to the proceedings. We hold that an action to vacate a private road is strictly controlled by statute and that § 228.450, RSMol986,2 requires notice to all landowners through which the private road sought to be vacated passes. Because this notice was not given to the…