Tealin Company v. City Ladue

Plaintiff-appellant Tealin Company (Tealin), owner of a vacant lot in the city of Ladue, St. Louis county, sued in circuit court to enjoin the enforcement of Ladue's single-family, residential zoning ordinance as to Tealin's property on the grounds that the ordinance as applied to Tealin's property was unreasonable, unconstitutional, unlawful, and void. The circuit court held the ordinance reasonable and denied injunctive relief. On appeal to the Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis district, the judgment of the circuit court was reversed and the cause remanded with instructions to grant Tealin injunctive relief. Thereafter, this court granted Ladue's application to transfer pursuant to Art. V, section 10, Mo.Const., as amended 1970. Prior to the filing of the circuit court suit, Tealin had applied to Ladue for a change of zoning to F commercial in order to permit the construction of a two-story-office building. Ladue's zoning and planning commission recommended against the rezoning and the city council denied the application for rezoning.