Kansas City v. Fee
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. Ralph S. Latshaw, Judge. The school district of Kansas City is an independent public governmental corporation, and has the sole and exclusive power to provide heating apparatus, of such kind as it may determine, for its school houses, and has the sole power to employ janitors or firemen or other servants, and to prescribe their powers, duties and compensation, and therefore, necessarily, their qualifications. • Hence, the city has…
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Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. Ralph S. Latshaw, Judge. The school district of Kansas City is an independent public governmental corporation, and has the sole and exclusive power to provide heating apparatus, of such kind as it may determine, for its school houses, and has the sole power to employ janitors or firemen or other servants, and to prescribe their powers, duties and compensation, and therefore, necessarily, their qualifications. • Hence, the city has no power or control whatever, over the heating apparatus or firemen or janitors of said school district while working,…
1Opinion of the CourtTeimble, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the criminal court of Jackson county, wherein appellant was, on an appeal from the municipal court, convicted of a violation of one of the ordinances of Kansas City. That ordinance provides that' no person, not a fireman or engineer licensed by the city, shall be in charge of any steam boiler used for heating purposes carrying over fifteen pounds of steam to the square inch, and any person violating such provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than one dollar nor more than $500 and each day’s violation shall be deemed a…
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