Kane v. Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that it is the province of the legislature to appropriate public funds, which the Governor then has the authority to expend in accord with that appropriation
• discussing the legislative branch’s authority to appropriate funds and the executive branch’s authority to expend funds
• upholding the Governor’s decision to spend less than the amount that had been appropriated
• determining whether a specific legislative enactment and executive order were constitutional
• separation of powers is violated only when one branch of government usurps an essential power of another

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).