Kansas Supreme Court, 1920

157 opinions

The Home Lumber Company, a Trust Estate, and J. K. Stanland, W. C. Lowrey, D. C. Donahue, as Trustees of the said Trust Estate, Plaintiffs, v. Richard J. Hopkins et al., as The State Charter Board of the State of Kansas, Defendants 1920-02-07
L. A. Golden, Plaintiff, v. W. R. Mitchell, as Judge of the District Court of Smith County, Defendant 1920-06-03
John Currant, Appellee, v. Fred Lenger, Appellant 1920-06-05
A. R. Kinkel, Appellee, v. Fred F. Chase and Mable P. Chase, Appellants 1920-06-05
Irene Brackville, by Antoinette Brackville, her Next Friend, Appellee, v. The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Appellant 1920-06-05
J. T. Atherton, Appellee, v. The Topeka Railway Company, Appellant 1920-06-05
John T. Dale, Appellee, V. M. B. Armstrong, Doing Business As The Armstrong Music Company, Appellant, Et Al. 1920-06-05
E. D. Woodburn, Appellee, v. Dora E. Harvey, Appellee, and B. C. Hamilton, Appellant 1920-06-05
The Central Trust Company, as Administrator of the Estate of W. W. Mills, Deceased, Appellant, v. Isaac Adams, Appellee. In re The Estate of W. W. Mills, Deceased (The Central Trust Company, as Administrator, etc., Appellant, v. Isaac Adams [Claimant], Appellee) 1920-06-05
J. A. McArthur and F. J. Kuhlemeier, Appellees, v. The Independent Torpedo Company, Appellant 1920-06-05
Arthur Robertson and Mary Robertson, Appellees, v. Jacob Wangler and Lena Wangler, Appellants, Robert Robertson et al., Appellees 1920-06-05
Eliza C. Treadwell, Appellant, v. Robert H. Beebe, personally and as Executor, etc., and The City of Anthony, Appellees 1920-06-05
O. B. Manross, Appellee, v. The Uncle Sam Oil Company, Appellant 1920-06-05
W. H. Matthews, Appellee and Appellant, W. L. Matthews, R. B. Hammond, and W. J. Lucas, Appellees, v. T. C. Johnson, Appellant and Appellee 1920-06-05
A. J. Bellport, Jr., Appellee, v. J. C. Harkins and The Kansas Casualty and Surety Company, Appellants 1920-06-05
F. M. Johnson et al., Appellants, v. James Hay, Appellee and Appellant, and The Belleville State Bank, Appellee 1920-06-05
Lenox Hall, Appellant, v. A. B. Seelye, Appellee 1920-06-05
F. L. Haggart, Appellee, v. W. C. King, Appellant 1920-06-05
A. C. Small et al., by Harriett M. Small, their Next Friend, et al., Appellants, v. H. B. Small, Appellee 1920-06-05
W. F. Flack, Gordon Flack, John Flack and Ella Vielleaux, Appellees, v. Mattie Brewster, Appellant 1920-06-05
The Chamberlin Metal Weatherstrip Company, Appellee, v. The Bank of Pleasanton, Appellant 1920-06-05
The State of Kansas, ex rel. Alex S. Hendry, as County Attorney of McPherson County, Appellee, v. The Board of County Commissioners of McPherson County et al., Appellants 1920-06-05
M. L. Eikelberger, Appellee, v. The Insurance Company of North America, Appellant 1920-06-05
J. H. Dana and W. E. Ziegler, Appellees, v. The Kansas Natural Gas Company, Appellant 1920-06-05
W. O. Brookens, Mary Makinson, and Floretta Reynolds, Appellants, v. E. E. Brookens, et al., Appellees 1920-06-05
C. J. Laverty and Lulie Laverty, Appellants, v. The Larned Oil & Gas Company, a partnership, consisting of E. E. Frizell, A. H. Moffitt, and C. W. Stroud, Appellees 1920-06-05
L. A. Schlesener, Appellee, v. W. H. Mott and J. R. Kohler, Partners, etc., Appellants 1920-06-05
Wilsey State Bank, Appellant, v. Anthony E. Amend and Ruth Amend, Appellees 1920-06-05
The Kansas Free Fair Association, Appellee, v. The Georgia Casualty Company, Appellant 1920-06-05
Jessie L. Waymire, as Administratrix, etc., Appellee, v. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, Appellant 1920-06-05
G. D. Waters and Laura Waters, Appellees, v. J. M. Hatfield and H. M. Hatfield, Partners, etc., Appellants 1920-06-05
Howard Dunlavy, Appellee, v. T. S. Moffett, Appellant 1920-06-05
Dan Stainbrook, Appellee, v. A. W. Wilson, Appellant 1920-06-05
A. S. Bennett, doing business as The Bennett Commission Company, Appellant, v. J. M. Dickinson, as receiver of The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, and The Union Pacific Railroad Company, Appellees 1920-06-05
Andrew Anderson et al., Appellants, v. S. H. Piper, as Executor of the Will of Herman Anderson, Deceased, and Martha J. Skinner, Appellees 1920-06-05
In re George L. Hosford, Petitioner 1920-06-05
In re Chauncey Jackson, Petitioner 1920-06-05
The Clay County Cooperative Telephone Association, Plaintiff, v. The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, The United Telephone Company, and The Court of Industrial Relations, Defendants 1920-06-12
T. B. Ruby, Appellant, v. John Baker et al., Appellees 1920-06-14
Charles Miles and Anna Miles, Appellants, v. J. A. Hamilton, Appellee 1920-06-16
In re Petition for Construction, Establishment and Maintenance of Drainage Ditches (J. H. Coffman, Petitioner, Appellee, v. Helen Frances Hall et al., Respondents, Appellants) 1920-06-24
William S. Anderson and Charles Sweeney, Appellees, v. Southern Surety Company, Appellant 1920-07-10
Harvey J. Spencer, Appellee, v. Deering J. Marshall et al., (E. L. Fairbanks et al., Appellants) 1920-07-10
Anton Schumacher et al., Partners, etc., et al., Appellants, v. Anton Jacobs, Appellee 1920-07-10
Page Atkinson and Emerson Atkinson, Appellees, v. J. A. Darling, Appellant 1920-07-10
Rufus Abel, Appellee, v. E. E. Hounsom, Appellant 1920-07-10
James W. Pearson, Susan Lue, and Celia B. Patton, Appellants, v. Raymond Orcutt, Rebecca A. Orcutt, and Sarah Pruitt, Appellees 1920-07-10
J. F. Gigoux, Appellant, v. John Henderson, Appellee 1920-07-10
Otto Nordboe, Appellee, v. Mary A. Frye et al., Appellants 1920-07-10
J. M. Wilson and R. L. Wilson, Partners as the Wilson Realty Company, Appellees, v. Horace Jones, Appellant 1920-07-10
J. A. Thompson and F. D. Thompson, Partners, etc., Appellees, v. The Union Traction Company, Appellant 1920-07-10
Susan Gasaway and Thomas Gasaway, Appellees, v. R. F. Teichgraeber, Appellant 1920-07-10
Hortense Patterson, Appellee, v. Uncle Sam Oil Company, Appellant 1920-07-10
In re Estate of Mary J. Camp, Deceased (Helen L. Webster, Claimant, Appellee, v. Mahlon Camp, Appellant) 1920-07-10
R. H. Miller, Appellant, v. Esther Kyle, Appellee 1920-07-10
Frank Field et al., Appellants, v. The Board of County Commissioners of Reno County, Appellee; J. L. Fegett et al., Appellants, v. The Board of County Commissioners of Reno County, Appellee 1920-07-10
Kate Purl, Appellant, v. Thomas C. Purl et al., Appellees 1920-07-10
Lucia S. Vail, Appellee, v. The Marshall Motor Company, and The Packard-Wichita Motor Company, Appellants; Walter Scott Vail, by W. C. Vail, his Guardian and next Friend, Appellee, v. The Marshall Motor Company, and The Packard-Wichita Motor Company, Appellants 1920-07-10
W. C. Shank, as Administrator, Etc., and The Abbott Coal Company, Appellants, v. The Franklin Coal Company, Appellee 1920-07-10
Harry Stone and Lottie Stone, Appellees, v. The Jarbalo State Bank, Appellant 1920-07-10
In re The Estate of John E. Lawless, Deceased (J. L. Finley, Claimant, Appellant, v. Mrs. J. B. Gilmore et al., Appellees) 1920-07-10
J. M. Shepherd, Appellant, v. William Whitmore, as Executor, etc., et al., Appellees 1920-07-10
Florence Hiatt, Appellee, v. Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World, Appellant 1920-07-10
Mack Smart, Appellee, v. John Mayer and Joe Gladdis, and John Mayer doing business as The Katy Coal Company, Appellants 1920-07-10
The State of Kansas, ex rel. John D. Beck, as County Attorney of Kiowa County, Plaintiff, v. The Board of County Commissioners of Kiowa County, and I. Sneed et al., as members of said Board of County Commissioners, Defendants 1920-07-10
W. A. Briggs, A. F. Welte, and C. M. Howell, Appellants, v. The Havana State Bank, Appellee 1920-07-10
H. L. Strong, doing business as The Strong Trading Company, Appellant and Appellee, v. G. W. Thurston and G. Wayne Thurston, Partners as G. W. Thurston & Son, Appellees and Appellants 1920-07-10
The State of Kansas, Appellant, v. Albert Allen, John Allen, and William Thompson, Appellees 1920-07-10
J. C. Ireland, Appellee, v. George W. Waymire et al. (Juanita Hill, Intervener, Appellant) 1920-07-10
Tom Brown, Appellee, v. C. W. Woolwine, as Sheriff of Ford County, Appellant; Ed Brown, Appellee, v. C. W. Woolwine, as Sheriff of Ford County, Appellant 1920-07-10
Frank Tuttle et al., Partners as Tuttle Brothers, Appellees, v. L. M. Miller and H. J. Nielson, Partners as the Woodson County Grain Company, Appellants 1920-07-10
Theodosia Davies, as Administratrix, etc., Appellee, v. Norman Lutz and Louise Lutz, Appellants, The Exchange State Bank of Nortonville et al., Appellees 1920-07-10
John Q. Royce, Appellee, v. The Farmers Life Insurance Company, Appellant 1920-07-10
Lillian Jane Williams, Appellee, v. The American Insurance Union, Appellant, and The Home Builders Union, Defendant 1920-07-10
John C. Weigand, Appellee, v. Clement L. Wilson, Appellant 1920-07-10
Pete Cunningham et al., Appellants, v. Logan Cunningham et al., Appellees 1920-07-10
Hays Bealmear et al., Appellants, v. Emma Hildebrand, as County Superintendent of Public Instruction of Gray County, Appellee 1920-07-10
Watson v. Watson; Lou Watson, Appellant, v. A. H. Watson et al., Appellees 1920-07-10
The State of Kansas, ex rel. Helen Zawada, Appellee, v. John Lyons, Appellant 1920-07-10
Wilbert H. Fuller, doing business as The Fuller Real Estate Exchange, Appellant, v. Charles A. Preston and Lillian B. Preston, Appellees 1920-07-10
J. W. Jones, Appellant, v. W. N. Smith, Appellee 1920-07-10
Glenn A. Warner, and The State of Kansas, Intervener, Appellants, v. E. O. Snook, and George Reigl, Appellees 1920-07-10
Esther I. McMullen, as Administratrix of the Estate of Hugh Gale McMullen, Deceased, Appellee, v. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, Appellant 1920-07-10
Lillie Stokes, Appellee, v. Morris & Company, Appellant 1920-07-10
Mattie Glasgow, Appellee, v. Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World, Appellant 1920-07-10
Cora J. Swader, Appellant and Appellee, v. The Kansas Flour Mills Company (R. W. Hoffman, Appellee and Appellant) 1920-07-10
Maggie Kuhn, and Elmer Kuhn, by his Guardian and Next Friend, Maggie Kuhn, Appellees, v. Barbara Kuhn, Joe Kuhn, and Frank Kuhn, Appellants 1920-07-10
Jess Chamberlain, Appellee, v. The Missouri Pacific Railway Company, Appellant 1920-07-10
Irene Brackville, By Antoinette Brackville, Her Next Friend, Appellee, v. The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Appellant 1920-07-10
C. E. Emick, Appellant, v. J. F. Swafford, Individually and as Sheriff, etc., and The Chicago Lumber and Coal Company, Appellees; John Ferguson, Appellant 1920-07-10
E. D. Woodburn, Appellee, v. Dora E. Harvey, Appellee, and B. C. Hamilton, Appellant 1920-07-19
Otis Laswell et al., Appellees, v. G. M. Seaton et al., as the School Board of Joint Rural High-school District No. 3, Pottawatomie County, Appellants 1920-07-19
The State of Kansas, ex rel. The Court of Industrial Relations et al., Appellee, v. Alexander Howat, August Dorchy, Thomas Harvey, and Robert B. Foster, Appellants 1920-07-19
The State of Kansas, ex rel. William H. Burnett, as County Attorney of Reno County, Plaintiff, v. Chas. H. Stewart, as County Clerk of Reno County, Defendant 1920-07-19
The State of Kansas, ex rel. Richard J. Hopkins, as Attorney-general, etc., Plaintiff, v. L. J. Pettijohn, as Secretary of State, etc., Defendant 1920-09-27
S. J. Howard, as Guardian, etc., Appellee, v. Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World, Appellant 1920-10-09
C. W. Beeler, Appellee, v. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, Appellant 1920-10-09
In re The Estate of W. W. Mills, Deceased (The Central Trust Company, as Administrator, etc., Appellant, v. Isaac Adams [Claimant], Appellee) 1920-10-09
Jennings R. Dessery, Appellee, v. The Western Union Telegraph Company, Appellant 1920-10-09
Elbert S. Rule, Appellant, v. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, Appellee 1920-10-09
Gertrude E. Moon, as an Individual and as Administratrix, etc., Appellant, v. Nancy J. Moon and Edgar L. Moon, Appellees 1920-10-09
John Hayes, Appellee, v. M. W. Cardwell, Appellant 1920-10-09
A. H. Anderson and S. E. Anderson, Partners, etc., Appellees, v. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, Appellant 1920-10-09
A. T. Sticelber, Appellant, v. B. L. Bressie, Appellee 1920-10-09
Bertie Harmon, Appellee, v. The Electric Theatre Company, Appellant 1920-10-09
The State of Kansas, Appellee, v. Doc Ward (et al.), Appellant 1920-10-09
Arthur Tucker et al., Plaintiffs, v. J. M. Kirkpatrick, as President, etc., of The Security Benefit Association et al., Defendants 1920-10-09
The Hardman Lumber Company, Appellant, v. Frank Blanch (W. F. Conner et al., Appellees) 1920-10-09
Grace L. Snyder, Appellee, v. The Farmers Alliance Insurance Company, Appellant 1920-10-09
Frank Tuttle et al., Partners as Tuttle Brothers, Appellees, v. L. M. Miller and H. J. Nielson, Partners as the Woodson County Grain Company, Appellants 1920-10-09
Ray Hollingsworth, Appellee, v. George D. Berry and Herman H. Fisher, Appellants 1920-10-09
Joseph Miller, Appellee, v. Frank Miller, Appellant 1920-10-09
In re The Estate of E. M. Trout, Deceased (T. W. Gardner, as Administrator, etc., Appellant, v. L. L. Thrall, Appellee 1920-10-09
A. W. Howard, Appellant, v. The Citizens National Bank, Appellee 1920-10-09
Harry Stone and Lottie Stone, Appellees, v. The Jarbalo State Bank, Appellant 1920-10-09
Illinois Steel Bridge Company, Appellant, v. W. C. Wayland, Appellee 1920-10-09
Will S. Thompson, Plaintiff, v. The State Board of Canvassers, L. J. Pettijohn as Secretary of State, etc., and Carr W. Taylor, Defendants 1920-10-09
Mrs. E. W. McMillen, Appellee, v. H. I. Ellis, etc., Appellant 1920-10-09
Frona Gaffney, Appellant, v. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, Appellee 1920-10-09
A. J. Rice, Appellant, v. John Vaughn, Appellee 1920-11-06
The State of Kansas, Appellee, v. Oscar Peterson and Fred Martin (Farmers Auto Company, Appellant) 1920-11-06
The State of Kansas, Appellee, v. Earl A. Nossaman, Appellant 1920-11-06
In re The Estate of Felix Smith, Deceased (M. L. Smith, Appellant, v. Fred Smith [Flora Foy, Appellee]) 1920-11-06
Frank W. Denton, Plaintiff, v. Isabelle James, Appellee and Appellant, and Sarah L. Denton, Intervener, Appellant and Appellee 1920-11-06
Fred Pack, Appellant, v. Martin Grimes, revived in the name of Anna B. Grimes, as Executrix, etc., et al., Appellees 1920-11-06
Annie L. Moore, Appellee, v. Frank I. Samuelson, Gus W. Samuelson (et al.), Appellants 1920-11-06
Ralph P. Brown, Plaintiff, v. Carl Potteck, as City Clerk of the City of Coffeyville, Defendant 1920-11-06
Charles A. Woodall, Appellee, v. Ulery Alexander et al. (Eva May Hegarty, Intervener, Appellant) 1920-11-06
C. C. Wyandt, as Executor, etc., Appellant, v. Arthur Merrill, as Guardian, etc., and Clarence Holmes, Appellees 1920-11-06
Nellie Weston, Appellee, v. Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads, Appellant 1920-11-06
O. C. Bradshaw, as Administrator, etc., Appellee, v. The Farmers & Bankers Life Insurance Company, Appellant 1920-11-06
The State of Kansas, Appellee, v. Ed Metz, Appellant 1920-11-06
The City of Hays, Appellant, v. Alex Schueler, Jr., Appellee 1920-11-06
J. E. Mathews, Appellant, v. The Union Central Life Insurance Company, Appellee 1920-11-06
The State of Kansas, Appellee, v. R. J. Bell, Appellant 1920-11-06
Walter S. Dickey, doing business as W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company, Appellant, v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company et al., Appellees 1920-11-06
School District No. 1, in Trego county, et al., Appellees, v. H. F. Kline, as Mayor of the City of Wa Keeney, et al., Appellant 1920-11-06
Leroy Blackburn, Appellee, v. The Coffeyville Vitrified Brick & Tile Company, Appellant 1920-11-06
M. Breitenbach, Appellee, v. The Anthony & Northern Railway Company, Appellant 1920-11-06
M. H. Graff, revived in the Names of Daisy D. Holbrook, Jennie B. Smith and Urie Compton, as Sole Surviving Heirs of M. H. Graff, Deceased, Appellees, v. The National Liberty Insurance Company, Appellant, and Mary E. Baker, Appellee 1920-11-06
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Appellant, v. David Kohler et al., Appellees 1920-11-06
Fred Gestenslager, Appellant, v. C. R. Rixon and The Home State Bank of Greensburg (et al.), Appellees 1920-11-06
R. H. Longhofer et al., Appellees, v. J. B. Schick and Bertie Schick, Appellants 1920-11-06
O. A. Keys, Appellee, v. Charles E. Schaff, as Receiver of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, Appellant 1920-11-06
Sam Goldstein, Appellant, v. Wiley Salisbury, Appellee 1920-11-06
Bruce Brothers Grain Company, Appellee, v. Walker D. Hines, as Director General of Railroads and of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, Appellant 1920-11-06
The State of Kansas, Appellee, v. James McDonald, Appellant 1920-11-06
The State of Kansas, Appellee, v. Charles E. Bailey, Appellant 1920-11-06
Floyd Arnett et al., Appellees, v. Sarah J. Wescott et al., Appellants 1920-11-06
Pauline Harburger Cohen, Appellant and Appellee, v. Jacob A. Corbett et al., Appellees and Appellants 1920-11-06
L. H. Bowers, Appellee, v. C. R. Mildren, Appellant 1920-11-06
F. M. Kaull et al., Partners, etc., Appellants, v. L. M. Blacker et al., Appellees 1920-11-06
The Union National Bank, Appellee, v. Elizabeth Pirotte, revived in the name of Elizabeth Pirotte, Jr., as Administratrix, etc., and Mary Pirotte, Appellants 1920-11-06
In re Appeal of George A. Anderson from Award of County Commissioners, etc. (George A. Anderson, Appellee, v. The Board of County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Appellant) 1920-11-06
The State of Kansas, ex rel. Richard J. Hopkins, as Attorney-general, etc., Plaintiff, v. P. T. Foley, as Mayor of the City of Parsons, Defendant; The State of Kansas, ex rel. Richard J. Hopkins, as Attorney-general, etc., Plaintiff, v. F. N. Boyd, as Police Judge of the City of Parsons, Defendant 1920-11-06
The Solomon National Bank, Appellant, v. The Continental Trust Company et al. (L. A. Mergen, Appellee.) 1920-11-06
Will S. Thompson, Plaintiff, v. The State Board of Canvassers, L. J. Pettijohn, as Secretary of State, etc., and Carr W. Taylor, Defendants 1920-11-15