State ex rel. Boynton v. City of Kansas

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

In this proceeding the state invokes the original jurisdiction of this court in quo warranto, challenging the authority of Kansas City to enter into a contract with a trustee to be approved by the national government whereby the city lets to the Federal Administrator of Public Works a part of its undeveloped municipal *472wharf for $10 per annum and in turn leases from such trustee the same property at a stipulated annual rental of “not less than $25,000 per annum” for an indefinite number of years, such rental to begin on the completion of…