Court Opinion

ID: 9754905
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 20:17:57.531414+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:00.564385
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PATRICIA A. BRECKENRIDGE, Judge,
concurring.
It is not necessary for this court to address the issue of what is required in a warning letter before initiating quasi-criminal prosecution against a landlord for a prohibited nuisance on rental property. City of Webster Groves v. Erickson requires that the landlord have actual or constructive knowledge of an alleged nuisance even though the requirement of notice is not explicitly expressed in the nuisance ordinance. 789 S.W.2d 824, 826-27 (Mo.App.E.D.1990). There is no requirement in City of Webster Groves that the source of actual or constructive knowledge be a writing mailed by the city of Webster Groves. Likewise, the record, here, demonstrates that while McGary had actual notice of the nuisances prior to being charged with permitting prohibited nuisances on his rental property, the actual notice found sufficient by the majority was not based on the City’s warning letter. Therefore, any discussion of what is required in the warning letter is dictum.