City Ice Co. v. Quivira Development Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This litigation grew out of a project of the building of Quivira by the Quivira Development Company, a syndicate of men who engaged in the purchase of land in Wyandotte and Johnson counties, in the neighborhood of Kansas City. They purchased contiguous tracts, amounting to about nine hundred acres, on which dams and lakes were made, roads were built, water and sewer systems constructed, a community house, golf clubs and a number of dwelling houses were erected by purchasers, and the tract made ready for sale, until the company had…