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AMERICAN LEGION PHILLIPS POST v. CITY OF MALDEN

No. 7766.

330 S.W.2d 189 (1959)

AMERICAN LEGION PHILLIPS POST, Harold Blades, Ira Blades, Earl Kizer, Charley Hawk and May Hawk, George O. Schrader, M. D. Burge, W. F. Barton and Vernoy A. East, Appellants, v. CITY OF MALDEN, a municipal corporation, Respondent.

Springfield Court of Appeals, Missouri.

November 25, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones & Jones, Kennett, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Sharp & Hatley, Malden, for defendant-respondent.

RUARK, Judge.

This case set sail on an Odyssean journey in 1951, survived delays and perils which might have been planned by Poseidon (including the switching of circuit judges in midtrial), and has finally arrived in the rocky harbor of this court for decision. The reasons for this odyssey sprang into life when Malden, a city of the fourth class, almost literally spread its wings by annexing what is referred to as "the Malden Air Base," consisting of some 2,680 acres...

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