STATE, EX REL., v. CITY OF PITTSBURG

No. 42,631

188 Kan. 612 (1961)

364 P.2d 71

THE STATE OF KANSAS, ex rel. WILLIAM M. FERGUSON, Attorney General, Appellant, v. THE CITY OF PITTSBURG, a Municipal Corporation, and Its Governing Body, to-wit: HOMER W. RILEY, Commissioner and Mayor, and CLAUDE JACKSON, DICK R. BUTLER, HAROLD W. COMPTON and CHARLES CAMPBELL, Commissioners of said City, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed August 1, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred W. Rausch, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause, and William M. Ferguson, Attorney General, was with him on the brief for the appellant.

Charles Menghini and H. Gordon Angwin, both of Pittsburg, argued the cause, and Paul Armstrong, of Columbus, was with them on the brief for the appellees.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

PRICE, J.:

The question in this case concerns the constitutionality of Senate Bill No. 298, which was passed by the 1961 legislature and became effective on March 29, 1961, upon publication in the official state paper. The act appears as Chapter 81, Session Laws of 1961.

The detailed provisions of the act, and the contentions with respect thereto, are such that no...

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