City of Greenwood v. Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.

KAREN KING MITCHELL, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri (“trial court”), granting a permanent injunction to the City of Greenwood, Missouri (“Greenwood”), prohibiting trucks transporting rock from a quarry run by Appellants Martin Marietta Materials and Hunt Martin Materials (collectively, “Quarry”) 1 from using a particular road route through Greenwood to Missouri Highway 150. We reverse the judgment of the trial court.

Factual and Procedural Background 2

Greenwood is a fourth-class city of approximately 4,000 residents located in southern…