Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Board of County Commissioners

(dissenting) : It is said in the brief of the defendants that the act permitted the appropriation of $15,000. If this sum had been appropriated and divided into three annual installments of $5,000 each, it would not mean a serious diminution of the general revenue fund of $47,237.47. In Stewart v. Town Co., 50 Kan. 553, 32 Pac. 121, it was held that the city of Argentine was limited to the levy of ten mills for general revenue fund and had no authority to levy a tax in excess thereof for water, electric light and fire-department supplies. It was said in the opinion that the power to levy…