STRANDBERG v. KANSAS CITY

No. 51620.

415 S.W.2d 737 (1967)

John J. STRANDBERG, Jasper Liebstadter, Richard L. Hempel, Charles Eugene Cayot, Jack Cunningham, Raymond H. Starr and Thomas M. Johnson, Respondents, v. KANSAS CITY, Missouri, a Municipal Corporation, J. C. Nichols Company, a Corporation, Helendoris Murphy, Individually and as Trustee Under the Will of E. D. Fear, Deceased, Flora Anne Fear, Bonnie Ann Murphy, Walter L. Murphy, III, Patt Mortgage Company, a Corporation, and Dorothy Walthall, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied June 21, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Lamkin, Jr., James H. Hentzen, Kansas City, Kuraner, Oberlander, Lamkin & Dingman, Kansas City, of counsel, for respondents.

Herbert C. Hoffman, Guy W. Rice, Kansas City, for Kansas City.

Gage, Hodges, Park & Kreamer, B. Douglas Varner, Kansas City, for Helendoris Murphy, Flora Anne Fear, Bonnie Ann Murphy, and Walter L. Murphy, III.

Rogers, Field & Gentry, Reed O. Gentry, Kansas City, for J. C. Nichols Co.


STORCKMAN, Chief Justice.

This action seeks to declare invalid a Kansas City ordinance rezoning a six and one-half-acre tract of land from singlefamily and duplex-dwelling purposes to multistory apartment and hotel uses. The seven plaintiffs own homes outside, but nearby, the rezoned area. The defendants in addition to the city of Kansas City are the owner of the rezoned area and the prospective purchaser and developer of the area. The trial before the court without...

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