City of Kansas City v. Hertz Corporation

BARDGETT, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, City of Kansas City, Missouri, a municipal corporation (hereafter City), appeals from the judgment of acquittal entered in favor of defendant-respondent Hertz Corporation (hereafter Hertz).

This case involves a construction of a traffic ordinance of the City of Kansas

City with respect to the owner’s liability for illegally parked cars. The question is whether the ordinance imposes liability on the owner-lessor of a car when the car is being permissively used by a lessee and is illegally parked and, if so, whether the ordinance is in violation of…