Legal Opinion

Meriwether v. Kansas City

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided December 18, 1924PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

EAILEY, C.

Appellants filed tlieir petition in the Circuit Court of Jackson County to form a drainage and levee district under Articles I and IX of Chapter 28, Revised Statutes 1919. The petition is in due form, signed by the proper landowners in said proposed district, and asks the incorporation of 1723 acres of swamp, wet and overflowed lands lying in a contiguous body along the Missouri and Blue rivers, a part thereof being in the East Bottoms, within the corporate limits of Kansas City, and the remainder lying east of said city in Jackson County.

The city of Kansas City appeared in said…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Ewing v. HoblitzelleSupreme Court of Missouri · 1884
  2. Kansas City v. Marsh Oil Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1897
  3. State ex rel. Kansas City v. FieldSupreme Court of Missouri · 1889
  4. State ex rel. Garner v. Missouri & Kansas Telephone Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1905
  5. McGhee v. WalshSupreme Court of Missouri · 1913

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Reis v. NangleMissouri Court of Appeals · 1961
  2. City of Kansas City ex rel. Copper v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1982

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