Addis v. City of Kansas City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was a taxpayers’ suit to enjoin the collection of special assessments levied against plaintiffs’ properties to pay the cost of certain sewer construction in and about Kansas City.

The case was essentially a companion case to that of Alber v. Kansas City, 138 Kan. 184, 25 P. 2d 364, where the pertinent facts were stated so fully that it is needless to repeat them here.

In brief, the present plaintiffs to the number of 438 allege that they are resident property owners in sewer district 31, of Kansas City; that various egregious…