Kansas City v. McGee

WESTHUES, C.

The City of Kansas City and the Mayor and members of the City Council filed this suit for a declaratory judgment against the defendants Louis B. McGee, Will A. Sessions, Harry B. Kies, Nat Milgram, and Eugene L. Selders, as individuals and as members of a committee of petitioners who had filed a certain initiative petition proposing an ordinance creating a firemen’s pension plan. The question sought to be adjudicated is whether the City Council was justified in refusing to submit the question of the enactment of the proposed ordinance to a vote of the people. The defendants filed…