Carson v. McDowell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hatcher, C.:

This is an appeal from the judgments in two consolidated cases (Nos. 45,210 and 45,292) in which the district court approved two ordinances changing zoning in the city of Kansas City, Kansas.

As the cases are to be decided on the procedural sufficiency to vest the city with jurisdiction to make the zoning change in each case the general facts may be abbreviated.

On December 14, 1965, the city annexed most of the territory east of the eastern boundary of the Canterbury additions. The annexed territory automatically assumed a single family…