State Ex Rel. Kansas City v. School District

Mandamus. By a proceeding inaugurated with the, passage of Ordinance No. 55,188 in December, 1927, Kansas City increased the width of Fifteenth Street to 100 feet between Campbell Street on the east and Baltimore Avenue on the west. The added width was taken off of the abutting property on the south side of the street by condemnation. To pay the costs and damages thus incurred the ordinance created a benefit district within which special assessments were levied. This district extended some six blocks east of the part of the street widened and also north and south of it. Included in this area…