State Ex Rel. Cranfill v. Smith

This is an original .mandamus proceeding, wherein relators, as a committee .of. petitioners for the adoption of an ordinance under the initiative provision of the charter, of Kansas City, seek to compel respondents, as members of the council of Kansas City, to submit the ordinance to the electors of the .city at a special election on April 12, 1932. The ordinance, provides for the acquisition by Kansas City of the street railway system of the city now owned and operated by the Kansas City Public Service Company, a Missouri corporation, • by condemning the capital stock of the company under…