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Where a homeowner challenged a judgment against him for violations of city’s property maintenance code by allowing bare dirt in his back yard and keeping chickens closer than 150 feet from his lot line, the homeowner did not suffer any ...

Tagged with: Chicken-Keeping Zoning

Where homeowners challenged the grant of adverse summary judgment in a quiet title and ejectment action, arguing that a genuine issue of material fact existed as to whether the tax lien certificate on their property was sold to a prohibited ...

Tagged with: Ejectment Prohibited Purchaser Quiet Title

Where a trial court reinstated a driver’s license because the printer connected to the breathalyzer test lost power before it produced a ticket, finding that the officer failed to strictly comply with the operational check list, the judgment is reversed ...

Tagged with: Breathalyzer Test Powerless Printer Substantial Compliance

Where a father challenged a trial court’s judgment granting in part and denying in part his motion to modify child custody and support, the trial court failed to make the statutorily required findings, so the judgment is reversed and remanded. ...

Tagged with: Child Custody Child Support Required Findings

Where a father involved in a dissolution challenged the denial of joint legal custody as well as the calculation and retroactive payment of child support, the trial court found that the father voluntarily stepped out of the older children’s lives ...

Tagged with: Child Support Joint Custody Monthly Income Calculation

Plaintiff appealed from the grant of summary judgment to defendants, dismissing plaintiff’s complaint alleging sexual abuse or battery, negligent supervision, intentional failure to supervise, intentional infliction of emotional distress and breach of fiduciary duty. Where consideration of the issues raised ...

Tagged with: Failure To Supervise Sexual Battery

Relator filed a medical-negligence action against the underlying defendant medical center, alleging he fell and struck his head and as a result had suffered a loss of smell and taste. Defendant successfully moved for an order compelling relator to submit ...

Tagged with: Ordered Medical Examination Writ Of Prohibition

Mother appealed from the trial court’s judgment that granted father sole legal and physical custody of the parties’ child, with mother having visitation, in addition to awarding father child support and ordering mother to pay father’s attorneys’ fees and a ...

Tagged with: Child Support paternity

The parties cross-appealed from the judgment in plaintiff’s motor-vehicle-accident case. Defendant appealed the entire judgment and the denial of her motion for a new trial, while plaintiff challenged the reduction of the verdict based upon the percentage of fault assessed ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle accident References to Liability Insurance

Defendant appealed from the judgment condemning property acquired for the construction of a facility for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Where defendant was found to have no compensable interest in the condemnation award, the order establishing the interest constituted a final ...

Tagged with: condemnation Timeliness of Appeal

Where the Missouri Landowners Alliance and the Missouri Farm Bureau appealed an order granting a certificate of convenience and necessity to a limited liability company for the construction and maintenance of an interstate electrical line and facilities, the appellants failed ...

Tagged with: Application Grant Electric Line Construction Statutory Authority