Doran v. Barnes
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from, Sedgwick District Court. Wichita, being a city of the first class under the laws of the state in force in the year 1893, paved a portion of Douglas avenue, one of the principal streets in that city, at the cost of $78,000, by making a special assessment against the premises within the paving district. Oscar D. Barnes was a lot owner on the avenue.
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Error from, Sedgwick District Court. Wichita, being a city of the first class under the laws of the state in force in the year 1893, paved a portion of Douglas avenue, one of the principal streets in that city, at the cost of $78,000, by making a special assessment against the premises within the paving district. Oscar D. Barnes was a lot owner on the avenue. On the 6th day of March, 1893, a petition was presented to the mayor and council asking that a portion of Douglas avenue be paved. On the 13th day of March, 1893, the petition was by resolution ordered spread upon the journal, the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
It appears from the agreed statement of facts that Osear D. Barnes, now complaining of the special assessment levied upon his property abutting on Douglas avenue, in "Wichita, lived in that city during the time of all the proceedings relating to the paving; that he signed the names of M. P. Barnes & Son to the petition for 275 feet; *240that 275 feet was a greater amount of abutting front feet than be had authority to represent; that he was doing business upon the street proposed to be paved; that he took the official paper of the city; that…
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