Schell v. Kansas City, Missouri

Declaratory judgment action'to declare unconstitutional and void an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance of Kansas City, by which certain property was rezoned from business to residential use. Plaintiffs contend this amendment' is arbitrary and unreasonable spot zoning. The trial court held the amendment valid and plaintiffs appealed. :

Plaintiffs bought their property in this rezoned area, in 1907, when.it was outside the city limits. It is at the northwest corner of the'intersection of 63rd Street and Swope Parkway, fronting 150 feet on each street, across the intersection from the northwest…