J.C. NICHOLS CO. v. CITY OF KANSAS CITY

No. WD 32500.

639 S.W.2d 886 (1982)

J.C. NICHOLS COMPANY, et al., Respondents, v. CITY OF KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

September 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ilus W. Davis (argued), Aaron A. Wilson, City Atty., Kansas City, for appellant.

Reed O. Gentry (argued), Field Gentry, Benjamin & Robertson, Kansas City, for respondents.

Before NUGENT, P.J., and TURNAGE and LOWENSTEIN, JJ.


NUGENT, Presiding Judge.

This action by taxpayers of Kansas City, Missouri, sought both a declaratory judgment that a lease to a private firm of property owned by the city, formerly used as a fire and police station, was illegal and void and an injunction to prohibit the city from carrying out the lease. The trial court found the lease to be illegal and void and granted the injunction. The defendant appeals from that order. We reverse.

In 1916, the City of...

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