EWING v. CITY OF SPRINGFIELD

No. 8804.

449 S.W.2d 681 (1970)

I. V. EWING, Safety Federal Savings and Loan Association, a corporation, H. Ben McCoy, Robert D. Adams Plumbing & Heating Company, a corporation, and One Hundred Two Glenstone, Inc., a corporation, Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. The CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, a municipal corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Springfield Court of Appeals, Missouri.

January 2, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don G. Busch, Springfield, for defendant-appellant.

F. B. Freeman, Thom G. Field, Neale, Newman, Bradshaw & Freeman, Springfield, for plaintiffs-respondents.


HOGAN, Judge.

This is a declaratory judgment action in which plaintiffs, as owners of several contiguous tracts in Springfield, sought to have the City's general zoning ordinance declared invalid as to the land described in the petition on the ground that it was unreasonable, arbitrary and confiscatory as so applied. The trial court found for the plaintiffs, and the City has appealed.

We have had first to examine the question of our jurisdiction. The City...

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