State ex rel. Parker v. City of Kansas City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

The state, on the relation of the attorney general, and the city of Kansas City invoke our original jurisdiction in quo warranto to determine the legality of certain arrangements which the city and its governing officials propose to make with prospective tenants of the newly completed food terminal market. More precisely put, the city wants an authoritative decision on the question whether it may expend some portion of the rental income of the market to aid a number of wholesale commission merchants who must sustain certain extraordinary…