STATE, ETC. v. TOWN OF WELDON SPRINGS HGTS.

No. 61102.

582 S.W.2d 661 (1979)

STATE ex inf. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, and ex rel. the CURATORS OF the UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, et al., Relators, v. The TOWN OF WELDON SPRINGS HEIGHTS, Missouri, a Municipal Corporation, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

June 19, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Preston Dean, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Jackson A. Wright, Columbia, Cyril M. Hendricks, Jefferson City, for relators.

David A. McMahon, Clayton, for respondent.


RENDLEN, Judge.

By quo warranto relators challenge respondent's annexation of some 2000 acres of land in St. Charles County wholly owned by the University of Missouri, a public corporation of the State. Because most of the land involved was employed for farming purposes and unavailable for annexation under § 80.030, RSMo 1969, we hold the annexation void and oust respondent from the area taken.

Respondent, incorporated as a town under chap. 80, towns...

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