STATE EX REL. ANDERSON v. CITY OF MADISON

No. 53703.

444 S.W.2d 443 (1969)

STATE of Missouri ex rel. Norman H. ANDERSON, Attorney General, acting also on behalf of a class of toll payers, and the State Highway Commission of Missouri, Appellants, v. The CITY OF MADISON, Illinois, a municipal corporation, and Jerry S. Maerac (or John Majaski or Pete Macek or Steve Knezevick or Vincent Huckla or Ronald Bushleff, Sr., or either of them) as representative of the class constituting the toll collectors on the Chain of Rocks Bridge and employees of the City of Madison, Illinois, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

September 8, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., John E. Park, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for appellants.

William R. Gartenberg, Harold L. Satz, Theodore D. Ponfil and Satz & Ponfil, St. Louis, and John Gitchoff, Granite City, Ill., for respondent, City of Madison.


WELBORN, Commissioner.

The State of Missouri, "on behalf of that class of persons who have paid or are paying tolls on the Chain of Rocks Bridge, extending from the City of St. Louis into the State of Illinois," and the Missouri State Highway Commission, brought suit in the St. Louis Circuit Court against the City of Madison, Illinois, owner of the bridge, alleging that Madison was collecting illegal and excessive tolls from users of the bridge. The petition asserted...

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