Section 15.20 Descriptions of Annexation Boundaries

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J. (§15.20) Descriptions of Annexation Boundaries

In City of Lake Saint Louis, Missouri v. City of O’Fallon, Missouri, 462 S.W.3d 810 (Mo. App. E.D. 2015), the court was called upon to determine the means by which an annexed parcel could be described in an involuntary annexation proceeding. There, an ambiguous legal description from an annexation that had occurred nearly two decades earlier was called into question by an adjoining city that began to commence its own annexation proceedings to annex an...