Varnal v. Kansas City

CROSS, Judge.

Summary judgment was rendered in favor of defendants Kansas City, Missouri and P. W. Halloran, on grounds this action was barred by a former judgment in a federal court and that the relief plaintiffs sought was not recoverable against defendants by reason of their immunity from liability in performing a governmental function. Plaintiffs appeal.

We state the history of the litigation chronologically. 1 On September 21, 1967, plaintiffs filed in the United States Court for the Western District of Missouri a petition against the defendants named herein, prefaced by an introductory…