State Ex Rel. Field v. Smith

-This is an original proceeding commenced in this court by the Police Commissioners of Kansas City to obtain a peremptory writ of mandamus against the City Council of that city to compel the appropriation, under the provisions of Chapter 38, Article XXIII, Revised Statutes 1929, of the sum of $1,442,425, the amount estimated by the relators as the cost of the police department of Kansas City for the fiscal year 1931-2. The return alleges the uneonstitutionality of the Statute.

What is now Article XXIII of Chapter 38, Revised Statutes 1929, creates and establishes within every city of the State…