EMPIRE DIST. ELEC. CO. v. SCORSE

No. SC 98380.

620 S.W.3d 216 (2021)

The EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC COMPANY, a Kansas Corporation, and Westar Generating, Inc., a Kansas Corporation, Respondents, v. John Thomas SCORSE, AS TRUSTEE UNDER That Certain TRUST AGREEMENT DATED NOVEMBER 17, 1976, and Its Unknown Successors and Assigns, and John Thomas Scorse, Individually, and His Unknown Heirs and Assigns, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, en banc.

Opinion issued April 20, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scorse was represented by Jonathan Sternberg of Jonathan Sternberg, Attorney, PC in Kansas City, (816) 292-7020.

The utilities were represented by Todd A. Johnson of Ellis, Ellis, Hammons & Johnson P.C. of Springfield, (417) 866-5091.


The Empire District Electric Company and Westar Generating, Inc., (collectively, the "Utilities") filed a petition to quiet title against John Scorse, both individually and as a trustee, and his successors in interest, concerning a tract of land in Newton County, Missouri. Mr. Scorse asserted counterclaims against the Utilities...

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