State Ex Rel. Board of Police Commr. v. Beach

WALKER, J.,

(dissenting). — I do not concur in either the reasoning employed or the conclusions reached in the mapority opinion.

The matters involved are, to my mind, of great importance, not only to the municipal autonomy of Kansas City generally, but more particularly to the management and expenditures of its finances. Thus imbued I cannot content myself with a “voiceless dissent,” but feel impelled, in a proper discharge of my judicial duty, to fully and freely record my reasons for differing with my associates.

I. The limitations upon the power of the Board of Police Commissioners is a…