Woodmansee v. Kansas City

GANTT. J.

Class suit by a taxpayer to restrain Kansas City and its Director of Finance from issuing and selling certain bonds. Permanent- iniunction was denied and the petition dismissed. Plaintiff appealed.

For seventy-five years the city owned and maintained the public market, cousis+ing of buildings, stands and stalls, which it rented to individuals and firms for the display and sale of foods. On deciding that the market should be enlarged by the purchase of land, erection of buildings and the modernization of the market facilities, the city-enacted Ordinance No. 6102 purporting to authorize…