State ex rel. Ives v. City of Kansas City
Supreme Court of Kansas
Original Proceeding in Quo Warranto. Action to dissolve the consolidation of the cities of Wyandotte, Kansas City, and Armourdale; heard on answer and demurrer to the answer. Demurrer overruled, and judgment for the defendants.
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Original Proceeding in Quo Warranto. Action to dissolve the consolidation of the cities of Wyandotte, Kansas City, and Armourdale; heard on answer and demurrer to the answer. Demurrer overruled, and judgment for the defendants. All the material facts are stated in the opinion herein, handed down January 7, 1893. The act entitled “An act to provide for the consolidation of cities,” approved February 11, 1886, and the act supplemental thereto and amendatory thereof, approved February 18, 1886, under which the consolidation of the cities of Wyandotte, Kansas City, and Armourdale, Wyandotte…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J.:
On March 6, 1886, Gov. John A. Martin issued a proclamation declaring a consolidation of the cities of Wyandotte, Kansas City and Armourdale as one city of the first class, under the namg of Kansas City. This action was taken by him a3 goverspf ’n pursuance of the authority of “An act to provide few^he consolidation of cities,” and *514another which is amendatory thereof, being chapters 63 and 64 of the Laws of 1886, and also upon the certificate of the county clerk of Wyandotte county, stating that no one of the cities named was a city of the…
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