Opinion ID: 2366005
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Heading: supplemental dissenting opinion on motion for rehearing

Text: In Suggestions in Opposition to the respondent's Motion for Rehearing it is suggested that § 64.281.4 is extraneous in that it is contained in a portion of the statutes which apply only to counties of the first class without a charter form of government. This argument has superficial appeal but overlooks the proposition enunciated in many cases that related statutes may be looked to as an aid in statutory construction. State ex rel. Rhodes v. Crouch, 621 S.W.2d 47 (Mo. banc 1981); State ex rel. Spink v. Kemp, 365 Mo. 368, 283 S.W.2d 502 (1955). We now have the anomalous situation in which a decision which was not made by a county court is subject to review under a statutory provision relating to county courts, whereas appeals from zoning orders made by county courts are reviewable under § 536.110. I also believe that the Court acted in an inconsistent manner in denying transfer of Ford v. Boone County, 654 S.W.2d 169 (Mo.App.1983) in August of 1983, while then granting the provisional rule in this case in October of 1983 and then reaching the result as set out in the per curiam.