Schenk v. City of Kansas

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action by taxpayers to enjoin the collection of certain special assessments made for the repaving of six blocks of Kansas avenue in Kansas City, and to enjoin the issuance of bonds to refund temporary notes which the city has already issued to pay for this street improvement.

Plaintiff’s petition is not submitted for our examination, but it must have been a long one, because a summary of its contents occupies sixty pages of appellants’ abstract. From it and appellants’ brief we glean that in June, 1923, pursuant to a petition of…