Meadow Park Land Co. v. School District

The essential issue in this case is sharply definable. The question is whether the School District of Kansas City, which instituted a proceeding to condemn land of the appellant for school purposes, and, after prosecuting that proceeding for several months, dismissed it, is liable for the attorney's fees and other attendant expenses incurred by appellant in its defense, in that proceeding.

The appellant sued for the sum of $9107.66, the amount which it had paid out, or had become legally liable to pay, by reason of the institution of the proceeding to condemn, and set forth a schedule of the…