McMillan Contracting Co. v. Abernathy

These were two bills in equity in the United States District Court brought by citizens of Missouri to enjoin citizens of the same State from proceeding to collect special-^ assessments, of the necessary jurisdictional amount in each case, against complainants’ lands in Kansas City for a public improvement, on the ground that the city charter and laws.under which the assessments were levied were in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment of ; the Federal Constitution. This was the only basis for the jurisdiction of the District Court. The bills also averred that the assessments did not comply…