Pollock v. City of Kansas City

Citations

• 87 Kan. 205
• 123 P. 985
• 1912 Kan. LEXIS 123

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Injunction — Special Assessments — Street Paving — Parties. Under section 265 of the civil code, a property owner not affected by the special assessments for street paving, but whose burdens as a taxpayer will be increased by reason of paving the intersections, may. maintain a suit to enjoin the city from proceeding to let an unauthorized contract for pavement.</p> <p>2. Paving Streets — Void Petition. Under section 1009 of the General Statutes of 1909, a paving petition which used words designating one specific kind of material, patented and controlled by only one company and furnished to bidders at only one price, in effect named the brand of material to be used, and was void.</p> <p>3. - Validated by Legislature — Curative Act — Classification. The legislature had the power to validate petitions of this kind already on file, and by chapter 91 of the Laws of 1911 did validate the one in question.</p>