State ex rel. Smith v. McCombs

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The state brings this action to require the mayor and commissioners of Kansas City to comply with the request of the board of public utilities of that municipality to issue and sell $200,000 of bonds to raise funds to defray the cost of constructing a water flume or flow line across the city from its pumping plant on the north to a storage reservoir on the south, which improvement the utility board has decided is requisite to serve the necessities of that part of town.

The board of public utilities was created by authority of chapter 126 of…