City of St. John v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

When St. John, a city of the third class and the county seat of Stafford county, was platted, one block, numbered 7, bore the designation “County Square.” A few years later the town company executed to the county a deed for the same tract, described therein as “block seven "in the original subdivision of the town of St. John, Kan., known as the ‘County Square.’ ” In 1920 the city caused the streets surrounding thip block to be paved, guttered and curbed, and to meet a part of the cost thereof made an assessment against it of 119,386.75. The…