Kansas City v. Kansas City Terminal Railway Co.

This is an action at law for damages brought by Kansas City, Missouri, against the Kansas City Terminal Railway Company, to recover the amount of certain street grading tax bills issued against an 8½-acre tract known as Union Station Park. The city, in a prior action prosecuted by the owner of the tax bills, had been compelled to pay them, and in this suit asserts the obligation rested on the Terminal Company to discharge the bills under the implied covenants in its franchise, and that it consequently must reimburse the city. The cause was tried to the court, sitting as a jury, and the city…