MISSOURI PAC. R. CO. v. JONES

No. 59122.

544 S.W.2d 541 (1976)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. J. J. JONES et al., Defendants-Respondents-Cross-Appellants, Cass County Reorganized School District R-I et al., Intervenors-Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

December 21, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent Snapp, James M. Beck, Johnson, Lucas, Bush & Snapp, Kansas City, for Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.

Robert D. Youle, Gary S. Dyer, Lathrop, Koontz, Righter, Clagett, Parker & Norquist, Kansas City, for Kansas City Southern Railway Co.

Donald C. Bollard, III, Deacy & Deacy, Kansas City, for St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

Judith Paxton Rea, Kansas City, for Missouri Public Service Co.

Clarence A. Conoley, Kansas City, for Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.

David M. Claycomb, James, Odegard & Millert, Kansas City, for Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co.

F. Michael Seltzer, Kansas City, for Kansas City Power & Light Co.

Lex A. Passman, Morrison, Hecker, Curtis, Kuder & Parrish, Kansas City, for United Telephone Co. of Missouri.

Jack C. Lorenz, St. Louis, James E. Taylor, Kansas City, for Southwestern Bell.

Elvin S. Douglas, Jr., Crouch, Crouch, Spangler & Douglas, Harrisonville, for intervenors-cross appellants.

Joseph A. Hamilton, Harrisonville, for defendants-cross appellants.

William C. Paxton, Paxton, Stewart & Sperry, A Professional Corp., Independence, Donald C. Earnshaw, Lee's Summit, for intervenors-cross appellants, Jackson County Reorganized School District R-VII (Lee's Summit) and Jackson County Consolidated School District VI (Lone Jack).


BARDGETT, Judge.

This case originated as a suit in the circuit court of Cass County by plaintiffs-appellants, nine regulated utility companies, to recover 1972 school taxes paid under protest. Defendants are J. J. Jones, the former treasurer and ex officio collector of Cass County whose term of office expired December 31, 1972, and Benny Odom, the collector of Cass County whose term of office began on January 1, 1973. Plaintiffs filed separate suits pursuant to Section...

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