Kaw Valley Drainage District v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of thd court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The action was one by the drainage district to recover the expense of removing certain approaches to what is known as the James street bridge. The plaintiff’s petition was in two counts. A demurrer was sustained to the second count, and plaintiff appeals.

The facts are substantially as follows: The public bridge of Wyandotte county across the Kansas river at James street, in Kan*635sas City, Kan., prior to 1912, consisted of but two spans with an embankment constituting an approach at the easterly'end of the bridge. The improvement of the…