Weigand v. Lester

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiff on behalf of himself and others similarly affected filed this original action in this court, praying for a writ of mandamus against the city officials of Wichita, directing them to assess the cost of a certain street improvement according to plaintiff’s notion of how that ought to be done, and not as the defendant officials have done it.

As the dispute between the parties over the correct interpretation of the statute is one very easily settled, we will decide that question, but we will have to add some comment touching the pro*456pr…