State v. City of Kansas

Citations

• 93 Kan. 420
• 144 P. 218
• 1914 Kan. LEXIS 447

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS OF THE COURT.</p> <p>' Cities of First Class — Annexation of Adjacent Territory— Construction of Statute. Section 1220 of the General Statutes of -1909, which authorizes cities of the first fclass by ordinance to extend their corporate limits so as to include any tract of unplatted land not exceeding twenty acres whenever the same “is so situated that two-thirds of any line or boundary thereof lies upon or touches the boundary-line of such city,” means whenever two-thirds of any single boundary-line or side of such tract lies upon or touches the boundary-line of such city; the word “any” being construed as used in the sense of one indifferently, out of an indefinite number.</p>