City of Kansas v. Union Pacific Railway Co.

Dostejí, C. J.

Section 1, chapter 74, Laws of 1891 (section 15, chapter 32, Oeneral Statutes 1897), reads as follows :

“ Whenever any territory adjoining or touching the city limits of any city of the first class having a population of 30,000 inhabitants or more shall be subdivided into lots and blocks, or whenever any unplatted tract of land shall lie upon or mainly within any such city, or is so situated as to be bounded on three-fourths of its boundary line by platted territory of or adjacent to such city, or by the boundary line of such city or by both, the same may be added to and made a…