Haggart v. City of Kansas City

This suit was brought to enjoin the city of Kansas City and its officers from collecting a reassessment of the cost of paving a part of Fifth street in that city. The petition in the case is very long and no good purpose would be subserved in reproducing it at length here.

A general demurrer was filed by the defendants to the petition, and the demurrer was sustained by the court. The plaintiffs elected to stand on their petition, the injunction was denied, and they bring the case here to reverse the order.

It is urged that the plaintiffs, or others who then owned the real property against which…