Speas v. Kansas City

This case comes to the writer on reassignment. The plaintiffs, as resident taxpayers of Kansas City, Missouri, seek to have adjudged unconstitutional all provisions of said city’s charter by which it and its officers and agents are authorized to supply water to non-residents, and to perpetually enjoin said city and its officers and agents from supplying water to non-residents. The circuit court sustained the defendants’ demurrers to the petition, the plaintiffs declined to plead further, judgment was entered in favor of the defendants, and the plaintiffs appealed. Thus is presented for our…