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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Price, J.:
This is an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to an amended petition following a denial of a motion to make said amended petition more definite and certain by stating therein the true place of residence of the plaintiff.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Arn, J.:
This action is one to set aside a release of defendant’s liability under a hail insurance policy which Merle Topinka, plaintiff, alleged he signed because of fraudulent and false representations made to him by the defendant’s adjusting agent in securing the release, an... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Harvey, C. J.:
This was an action'to determine the ownership of a sum of money in a savings account certificate in a building and loan association. The trial court heard the evidence and made findings of fact and conclusions of law and rendered judgment for plaintiff. The conte... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Beier, J.;
Movant Tuan Huynh entered a no contest plea to a first-degree felony murder charge in 1996 and received a life sentence. He appeals the district court’s September 2001 rejection of his motion to withdraw his plea.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
McFarland, C.J.:
Defendant appeals from his conviction of reckless driving (K.S.A. 8-1566[a]). He contends the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction (State v. Remmers, No. 89,721, unpublished opinion filed January 9, 20... | [
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The opinion was delivered by
Luckert, J.:
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Hoch, J.:
This was an action under the workmen’s compensation act. The compensation commissioner found for the .plaintiff. On appeal the district court found in part for the claimant and in paro for the respondent. The case is here on appeal by the respondent and cross-appeal b... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Allen, J.:
In this appeal two related cases are consolidated.
■ Richard P. Hardesty, Jr., brought an action for divorce against Frances V. Hardesty in the district court of Johnson .county. On January 28, 1938, a decree of divorce was granted plaintiff on the ground of extreme ... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Smith, J.:
This was an action to recover money. Judgment was for plaintiff. Defendant appeals.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Allen, J.:
Two actions were brought by appellant to recover taxes paid for years 1934 and 1935 upon its toll bridge across the Missouri river at Atchison. In case No. 33,711 the action was to recover taxes which had been paid without protest, and the appeal is from a judgment s... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Allen, J.:
The action was for damages resulting from an automobile collision. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff defendant brings this appeal.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Hoch, J.:
This was an action for damages against the city of Wichita, the plaintiff alleging that she was injured in a fall caused by a defective step on a stairway leading from a city bridge. The city demurred to the plaintiff’s evidence and offered no evidence. The demurrer w... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Allen, J.:
This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court in a workmen’s compensation case.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Allen, J.:
The Gridley rural high-school district No. 2, of Coffey county, brought this action against the board of county commissioners of Woodson county to recover tuition for certain pupils residing in Woodson county who attended the Gridley rural high school. The trial resu... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thiele, J.:
This was an action to recover on a policy of life insurance. Plaintiff’s demurrer to defendant’s amended answer was sustained. Defendant elected to stand on its amended answer, and judgment was rendered against it. The defendant appeals, assigning as errors the ruli... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dawson, C. J.:
This was an action to foreclose a mortgage on real property. Two defendants, as sole heirs of the mortgagors, invoked the statute of limitations. Their demurrer was overruled. Some uncontroverted testimony and a mass of correspondence was introduced, and the tria... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Smith, J.:
This is a workmen’s compensation case. Judgment was for claimant. Defendant appeals.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Hoch, J.:
This was an action for damages for injuries sustained by an eight-year-old boy when he was hit by a truck. Plaintiff prevailed and the defendants appeal.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Harvey, J.:
The Morton Salt Company, having paid income taxes for the years 1933 to 1936, inclusive, filed with the state tax commission a claim, and an amended claim, for a refund of parts of the taxes paid. These claims were heard by the tax commission and denied. The taxpaye... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wedell, J.:
This action, in two counts, was instituted against the administrator of the estate of John Sheridan, deceased. In the first count damages were sought in the sum of $31,500, for the breach of a purported written contract between the plaintiff and John Sheridan, decea... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Luckert, J.:
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nuss, J.:
Petitioners, who are inmates at Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF), challenge the constitutionality of two of respondents’ regulations. The first, K.A.R. 44-12-601(q)(l), requires that all inmate purchases of books, newspapers, and periodicals be made through their i... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Hoch, J.:
This was an action to cancel a deed on the ground that it was executed under duress. Plaintiff prevailed, and defendants appeal.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thiele, J.:
This was an action to quiet title. Defendants appeal from an order overruling their demurrer to plaintiff’s petition.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thiele, J.:
Connie Busch appeals from a judgment abating and permanently enjoining certain described real estate as a place where a nuisance was maintained in violation of the intoxicating liquor laws of the state, and from a judgment for costs in connection therewith.
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Per curiam:
Plaintiffs have invoked our original jurisdiction in mandamus to compel defendants to extend to plaintiffs as duly licensed osteopathic physicians the right to use the county hospital for the purpose of treating their patients.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wedell, J.:
This action was instituted by a broker to recover a fixed commission alleged to be due and owing to him under the express terms of a written agreement, for having negotiated a lease for the defendants with Sears, Roebuck and Company. Judgment went for plaintiff, and... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Harman, C.:
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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This case now makes its second appearance before the court. On February 13, 1967, the defendant, Thomas M. Kidwell, was convicted by a jury of first degree murder in the death of his wife. The judge who presided at that trial set the conviction aside and granted a ... | [
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In a letter dated July 6, 2004, to the Clerk of the Appellate Courts, respondent, Lee Russell Stanford, Jr., of Salina, Kansas, an attorney admitted to the practice of law in the State of Kansas, voluntarily surrendered his license to practice in Kansas, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 217 (2003 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 281).... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wedell, J.:
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Hoch, J.:
This was an action by the beneficiary named in a life insurance policy to recover under the policy upon the death of the insured. A demurrer to the petition was sustained, and the plaintiff appeals.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Ti-iiele, J.:
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wedbll, J.:
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
.Hoci-i, J.:
This was an action to foreclose a lien on real estate. Plaintiffs prevailed, and defendant appeals.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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OPINION DENYING A REHEARING
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In a motion for a rehearing counsel for appellees complain because our opinion ignored their contention “that no claim for compensation, written or oral, registered or unregistered, was made either within ninety days after the accident... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Wedell, J.:
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dawson, C. J.:
This was an action for damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff when she fell on a defective sidewalk in Kansas City. Impleaded with the city were one Reddick, a plumber, and the Maryland Casualty Company, a corporation engaged in writing casualty insurance.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Harvey, J.:
This was an action on a “statement of indebtedness.” The trial court sustained a demurrer to the petition. Plaintiffs have appealed.
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OPINION ON REHEARING
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Harvey, J.:
This appeal involves the question of the authority of the state tax commission to make an assessment of income taxes on November 20,1937, of income for the year 1933.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thiele, J.:
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thiele, J.:
This is an appeal from .a ruling sustaining a demurrer to evidence.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dawson, C. J.:
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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This is an appeal by the defendant, Michael L. Marsh II, from convictions of capital murder of Many Elizabeth Pusch (M.P.), first-degree premeditated murder of Marry Ane Pusch (Marry), aggravated arson, and aggravated burglary. Marsh... | [
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This was an action by parents to recover for the death of their son, who was killed in a collision between the car he was driving and the defendants’ truck. Judgment was for plaintiffs. Defendants appeal.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The plaintiff, an employee of the defendant city, brought an action to recover damages for injuries sustained during the course of his employment. The trial court sustained a demurrer to his evidence and rendered judgment for defendant, and the plaintiff appeals.
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Smith, J.:
This was an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The case was submitted to a jury, which was discharged because it was unable to agree. The defendants appeal from an order overruling their demurrer to the evidence of plaintiff.
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This was an action by an administrator to recover property alleged to belong tó his decedent. At the trial plaintiff moved for judgment on the pleadings and opening statements. The motion was allowed and a judgment rendered from which defendant appeals.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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This is an appeal from a conviction of simple assault. Defendant had been previously tried and convicted of manslaughter in the second degree. This court reversed that judgment for trial errors and remanded the case for retrial. (State v. Linville, 148 Kan. 142, 79 ... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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This was an action to foreclose mechanics’ liens on real property. Judgment was for the defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dawson, C. J.:
This was an action to recover a share of the proceeds of certain oil runs from an oil well in the city of Eureka.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Allen, J.:
This action was for damages for breach of three agistment contracts. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff defendant appeals.
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This was an action for damages for personal injuries alleged to have resulted from defendant’s negligence. The jury answered special questions and returned a general verdict for plain tiff for $3,750, on which judgment was rendered. Defendant has appealed.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Smith, J.:
This was an action on a life insurance policy. Judgment was for plaintiff. Defendant appeals.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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Foth, C.J.:
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Meyer, J.:
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
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Cunningham, J.:
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Error from Sumner district court. | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J. :
During the year 1897 John W. Skinner was the sheriff of Cowley county, and in actual possession of the office. In the latter part of that year the probate judge of Cowley county ordered that two girls be committed to the industrial school for girls, and instead o... | [
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Per Curiam:
This was an action brought in justice’s •court by the Acme Harvester Company against E. Erne to recover on two promissory notes given in payment of a harvesting-machine. Defendant filed a •cross-demand, alleging the purchase of the header and the giving of the notes upon an express warranty, partly in writi... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Pollock, J. :
The defendant in error, owner of an improved lot in the city of Oswego, mortgaged it to .plaintiff in error, which mortgage was transferred to jthe Perkeoman Trust Company. Upon default in payment the trust company foreclosed the mortgage, the decree providing for... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Pollock, J. :
The Kansas Grain Company, a Missouri corporation, was, on June 2, 1898, indebted to plaintiff in error upon promissory notes aggregating, face value, $20,000. To secure payment of these notes, the grain company, upon said date, made plaintiff in error its first mo... | [
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Error from Sedgwick district court. | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
CunninghaA, J.:
This was an action by the defendant in error to recover damages from the railway cbmpany for personal injuries received in its employ. He was head brakeman on a freight-train which had just pulled into the yards at Arkansas City. The air-brakes were negligently ... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Cunningham J.:
Counsel for plaintiff in error urges several reasons why the judgment of the court below should be reversed, but they all substantially resolve themselves into two contentions. The first is that Mrs. Jackson should not be held on the note set out in the second ca... | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Smith, J. :
This is a proceeding in error brought to review the action of the district court in refusing an application for a peremptory writ of mandamus. The application was made by the state, on the relation of the county attorney of Barton county, and against the Lake Koen N... | [
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Error from Cowley district court. | [
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Error from Coffey district court. | [
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Error from Jefferson district court. | [
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Error from Greenwood district court. | [
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Error from Kingman district court. | [
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Appeal from Allen district court. | [
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gjreene, J. :
At the January, 1898, term of the district court of Greenwood county, the plaintiffs in error were convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life for the murder of Joseph New. On February 25, 1898, they filed in said court their joint application for a writ ... | [
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