City of Kansas City v. Silver

The city of Kansas City undertook to pave one of its streets and. to assess the cost upon the property specially benefited. The defendants in error enjoined the assessments against their property, the original petition for the improvement having lacked the required number of signatures. The legislature then passed the general curative act embodied in section 129 of chapter 122, Laws of 1903, which reads as follows:

“In case the mayor and council of any city shall have heretofore levied or shall hereafter levy any special assessment for any public improvement in said city, which special…