Brink v. Kansas City

The defendant Kansas City appeals from a judgment of the circuit court of Jackson County in favor of the plaintiff-respondent Brink as trustee for a large number of realty owners in the city, for $64,077.12 and interest. The principal amount is the aggregate of sums long since severally paid by the realty owners in discharge of special assessment taxbills against their respective tracts for the construction of the first section of the Brookside sewer. Recovery of those payments is sought on the theory that the special assessment proceedings were fraudulent and void because of eollusive…