Legal Opinion

City of Topeka v. Dwyer

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided November 5, 1904No. 14,079PublishedCited by 39 opinions

Appeal from Shawnee district court; Z. T. Hazbn, judge.

1Opinion of the Court

*245The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J. :

Appellants were convicted in police court, and, on appeal, in the district court, of keeping and rearing swine within the corporate limits of the city of Topeka. Appellants admit the keeping and rearing of swine, but defend on the ground that the land devoted to that business was not a part of the city.

The city produced ordinances enacted and published in the year 1889, and judgments of the district court of Shawnee county rendered upon such ordinances, all under chapter 99 of the Laws of 1887, purporting to extend the limits of the city…

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. State v. CarrollSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1871
  2. State ex rel. West v. City of Des MoinesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1896
  3. Board of Commissioners v. ShieldsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1876
  4. Speer v. Board of County Com'rsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1898
  5. Ashley v. Board of SupervisorsCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1893

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3Cited by39 opinions

  1. City of Albuquerque v. Water Supply Co.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1918
  2. Nelson v. Consol. Independent Sch. Dist. of Troy MillsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1917
  3. Schulenberg v. City of ReadingSupreme Court of Kansas · 1966
  4. People ex rel. Quisenberry v. EllisIllinois Supreme Court · 1912
  5. Schur v. Rural High-school District No. 1Supreme Court of Kansas · 1922

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