Kansas Supreme Court, 1950

104 opinions

C. D. Wagoner, Appellee, v. The City of Hutchinson, Appellant 1950-03-11
David Cutrel and Rosie Bender, Plaintiffs, v. Lee F. Best, a Justice of the Peace of the City of Columbus, Cherokee County, and Archie Bottom and Jack Dewey, Defendants 1950-04-08
Jack Marshall, Appellant, v. (L. F. Bardin and Joseph Slager, doing business as Central Airpart Company and Central Airparts, Inc., Defendants). Ray Anderson (Interpleader), Appellee 1950-04-08
E. C. Crofoot, Appellee, v. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, a corporation, Appellant 1950-04-08
The State of Kansas, ex rel., Harold R. Fatzer, Attorney General, Plaintiff, v. Vernon C. Axton, Mayor of the City of Parsons, Defendant 1950-04-08
Beulah M. Hudgen, Appellee, v. The Pioneer National Life Insurance Company, a Corporation, Appellant 1950-04-08
George Jones and Gentry Jones, Appellants, v. Charles M. Walker, Appellee 1950-04-08
The State of Kansas, Appellee, v. George Miller, Appellant 1950-04-08
State of Kansas, Appellee, v. Otis Bradford, Appellant 1950-04-08
Fred Brack, Appellant, v. Walter Kleweno, Appellee, and Virgil Barrow, Intervenor, Appellee; Fred Brack, Appellant, v. Walter Kleweno, Appellee, and B. F. Scheuerman, Intervenor, Appellee; Fred Brack, Appellant, v. Walter Kleweno, Appellee, and The Wheat Growers Mutual Hail Insurance Company, Intervenor, Appellee 1950-04-08
Jessie Humphrey, Earl H. Miller, Bessie Miller, Effie Dieball, also known as Effie Duball, Appellants, v. Berenice (Bernice) Boyd Wallace and Dorothy Emery Hill, Executrices of the Last Will and Testament of Lillian M. Freeman, Deceased, and the Codicil Thereto; School District 21, Miami County; Cyril Kice and Ada Kice; The First Methodist Church of Paola; The First Baptist Church of Paola; The First Presbyterian Church of Paola; City of Paola; A. A. Bryan, Guardian ad litem for Bruce Lee Freeman, Billy Kice, and Janet Sue Humphrey; and Military Attorney for all the heirs at law of Decedent, and devisees and legatees under the Last Will and Testament of Lillian M. Freeman, Deceased, and the Codicil thereto, who are or may be in the military service of the United States, and the attorneys of record for said respective parties, Appellees 1950-04-08
Letha Thompson, Appellant, v. Beard and Gabelman, Incorporated, Appellee 1950-04-08
In the Matter of the Estate of Charles S. Young, Deceased. (Earle F. Miller, Jr., and Charles H. Miller, Appellees, v. A. G. Pyle, et al., Appellants.) 1950-04-08
In re Estate of John O. Greenleaf, Deceased. (Lois Greenleaf Christenson, Appellee, v. Myrtle Greenleaf, Executrix of Estate of John O. Greenleaf, Deceased, Appellant.) 1950-04-08
August F. Diehn, Appellant, v. L. R. Penner, George Russell and M. J. Ziegler, Board of County Commissioners of Johnson County, Kansas, Mission Township Main Sewer District No. 1, Johnson County, Kansas, Appellees, The Jones Construction Company, a Corporation 1950-04-08
Charles B. Barnes, Appellee, v. Anna Danner, Appellant 1950-04-08
I. G. Fullington (Revived in the name of Audrey Louise Fullington, Administratrix of the Estate of I. G. Fullington, deceased), Appellee, v. Clifford Goodrich, Appellant 1950-04-08
Albert C. Corkill, Appellee, v. Guy A. Thompson, Trustee of Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Debtor, Appellant 1950-04-08
City of Independence, Appellee, v. Al Wendorff, Appellant 1950-04-08
Earl Yordy and Velma Yordy Lindquist, Appellees, v. Dwight A. Yordy and Irma Yordy, Appellants 1950-05-06
State of Kansas, Appellee, v. George Neff, Appellant 1950-05-06
Orrin L. Browning and Rosalee M. Browning, Appellees, v. W. A. Blair, Howard C. King, and Lillian L. B. King, Appellants (Willis K. Dillenberger, Defendant) 1950-05-06
State of Kansas, Appellee, v. Cosme Rangel, Appellant 1950-05-06
Dora Leclercq, Appellant, v. Joseph Heimerman, Jr., et al., Appellees 1950-05-06
William Lee Hayes, Appellant, v. R. H. Hudspeth, Warden of the Kansas State Penitentiary, Appellee 1950-05-06
Ralph D. Rutledge, Petitioner, v. Robert H. Hudspeth, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Respondent 1950-05-06
State of Kansas, Appellee, v. L. C. Davis, Appellant 1950-05-06
Charles L. Davison (J. O. Wilson, Guardian of the Estate of Charles L. Davison, an Incompetent Person), Appellee, v. The Martin K. Eby Construction Company, Inc., A Corporation, Appellant 1950-05-06
In re the Estate of Ella Demoret, Deceased. (Gene Stevens and Joseph Clair Stevens, as Executors, under the Last Will and Testament of Ella Demoret, Deceased, Appellees, v. Faye Collingwood, Guardian of the Persons and Estates of Diantha Musette Collingwood and Sarah Ellen Collingwood, Minors, Appellant.) 1950-05-06
In re Estate of E. H. Fast, Deceased. (Minnie M. Minglin [Alias Minnie M. Fast], Appellee, v. John M. Fast, Administrator of the Estate of E. H. Fast, Deceased; Myrtle M. Fast, Appellants.) 1950-05-06
Tom Grannell, Appellee, v. Earl F. Wakefield, Appellant 1950-05-06
John M. Dorman, Appellant, v. Georgena A. Dorman, Appellee 1950-05-06
Ben Oetken, Appellee, v. G. W. Shell and Jack Shell, Appellants 1950-05-06
The City of Mound City, Linn County, Kansas, Appellant, v. Henry Carbon, doing business as Carbon Implement Company; Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc., Appellees 1950-05-06
State of Kansas, Appellee, v. Benjamin F. Stroble, Appellant 1950-05-06
Charles Henry Hall, Appellant, v. R. H. Hudspeth, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Appellee 1950-05-06
James B. Faidley, Appellee, v. W. C. Emrich and Edna P. Emrich, his wife, Appellants 1950-05-06
The Board of County Commissioners of Butler County, Kansas, Appellant, v. Black, Sivalls & Bryson, Inc., et al., Appellees 1950-05-06
Homer J. Balthazor and Arlene Balthazor, Appellees, v. B & B Boiler & Supply Company and Industro Sales & Equipment Company and Mid-Continent Butane Equipment Company, Appellant 1950-05-06
In the Matter of the Estate of John E. Schippel, Deceased. (James A. Jennerson, Appellee, v. Rose M. Schippel, Appellant.) 1950-05-06
Maurice D. Martin, Appellee, v. National Mutual Casualty Company, a corporation, Charles W. Trueblood and E. H. Dicke, Appellants 1950-05-06
Belle Knutson, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Melvin D. Clark, et al., Defendants, Carl S. Knutson, Appellant, Terris O. Knutson and John S. Knutson, Appellees 1950-05-06
General Motors Acceptance Corporation, a corporation, Appellee, v. Arnold Davis, Appellant 1950-05-06
Walter Strange, Jr., Appellee, v. Price Auto & Service Co., a Corporation, Appellant 1950-05-06
Loyd W. Minear, Appellee, and Cross-Appellant, v. Benefit Association of Railway Employees, a corporation, Appellant, and Cross-appellee 1950-05-06
Erma V. Abbott, Appellant, v. Vida F. Howard, Appellee; C. A. Abbott, Appellant, v. Vida F. Howard, Appellee 1950-06-10
Loring Dalton, Appellee, v. The Lawrence National Bank, a Corporation, Irving Hill and Justin D. Hill, Appellants; Mary Dalton Murphy, Appellee, v. The Lawrence National Bank, a Corporation, Irving Hill and Justin D. Hill, Appellants; Margery Dalton Hurst, Appellee, v. The Lawrence National Bank, a Corporation, Irving Hill and Justin D. Hill, Appellants 1950-06-10
Alta Prier, formerly Alta Lancaster, Appellee, v. Elton Lancaster, Appellant 1950-06-10
Sam H. Schaefer, Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. A. Milner, Appellant and Cross-Appellee, and W. M. Lewis (revived as to W. M. Lewis in the name of Tom Kornhaus as administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Waldo M. Lewis, deceased, Appellee and Cross-Appellant) 1950-06-10
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, a Corporation, Appellee, v. The State Corporation Commission of The State of Kansas, Jeff A. Robertson, Chairman and Commissioner, DeWitt M. Stiles, Commissioner, and Charles M. Warren, Commissioner, as Members of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, and Their Respective Successors in Office, Appellants 1950-06-10
Doradeen Perry, an incompetent, by Alva B. Perry, Her Father and Next Friend, Appellee, v. The State Highway Commission of Kansas, Appellant 1950-06-10
Oscar W. Rork, Appellant, v. L. E. Beatty, Appellee 1950-06-10
Glen Byer, Appellant, v. Rural High School District No. 4 of Brown County, Kansas, and Glen Jones, Karl Hern and Elizabeth Gillispie, members of the Board of Rural High School District No. 4, Brown County, Kansas, Appellees 1950-06-10
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, a Corporation, Appellee, v. The State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, Jeff A. Robertson, Chairman and Commissioner, DeWitt M. Stiles, Commissioner, and Charles M. Warren, Commissioner, members of The State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, and their respective successors in office, Jay Kyle, General Counsel for The State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, and Harold R. Fatzer, Attorney General of the State of Kansas, Appellants 1950-06-10
Dimmie Lemon, Appellant, v. Sidney L. Foulston, as Administrator of the Estate of Bates T. Hamilton, Deceased, Appellee 1950-06-10
Christine Kotzman, Appellee, v. Louis Papish and Jennie Papish, Appellants 1950-06-10
Duane Shafer, by Emma Shafer, his mother and next friend, Appellee, v. State Highway Commission of Kansas, Appellant 1950-06-10
The State of Kansas, ex rel., Samuel Mellinger, County Attorney of Lyon County, Kansas, Appellee, v. Adel F. Throckmorton, State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Edith Spellman, County Superintendent of Public Instruction of Lyon County; and Gladiola Bowman, County Superintendent of Public Instruction of Coffey County; and Joint School District No. 1 of Lyon and Coffey Counties, Appellants 1950-06-10
State of Kansas, Appellant, v. Ronald Paul (Buck) Sumner, Appellee 1950-06-10
W. B. Dalton, Appellee, v. Irving Hill and Justin D. Hill, Appellants 1950-06-10
Anna Smith, Appellant, v. The City of Emporia, a municipal corporation, Lyon County, Kansas, Appellee 1950-06-10
State of Kansas, Appellee, v. Faye Hayes, Appellant 1950-06-10
The City of Wichita, Kansas, a Municipal Corporation, Appellant, v. Helen S. Wright, Appellee 1950-06-10
Preston D. Miller, Jr., Appellee, v. Massman Construction Company, Appellant 1950-06-10
Philip S. Horney, Appellant, v. J. O. Buffenbarger, Jr., Eleanor G. Buffenbarger, Kathleen J. Horney and Kathleen J. Kennedy, Appellees 1950-06-10
Helen Waterbury, Appellee, v. Riss & Company, Inc.; Rocky Mountain Industries, Inc., Appellant; Country Club Distributing Company, Inc., Appellant; Jake Burkhardt, Morris Sigman, Sam Sigman, Sam E. Rudd, Elenore Rudd, Leonard A. Levand and Celia Levand, Appellants 1950-06-10
Connie Hukle, Appellant, v. Carl R. Kimble and Joyce W. Minson, a Partnership, doing business as M & K Truck Line; Carl R. Kimble; Joyce W. Minson and Home Mutual Insurance Company of Iowa, Appellees 1950-06-10
The Rock Island Motor Transit Company, a Corporation, and Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, a Corporation, Appellees, v. The State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, Appellant; The Santa Fe Trail Transportation Company, Appellee, v. The State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, Appellant 1950-06-10
In the matter of the Estate of John West, also known as Jno. West, Deceased; Ora West, Administrator, Appellant, v. John E. West, et al., Appellees 1950-06-10
Pauline Welch, Appellee, v. George W. Shepherd, Appellant, (George W. Shepherd, Harold H. Huckins, Amos Adams, E. Leo Prichard and Sarah M. Swaney, Defendants.); Pauline Welch, Appellant, v. (George W. Shepherd, Defendant) and Harold H. Huckins, Amos Adams, E. Leo Prichard, and Sarah M. Swaney, Appellees 1950-06-10
George B. Harris, Appellant, v. Frances M. Harris, Appellee 1950-06-10
Joe Muscia, Petitioner, v. Leonard S. Turner, Sheriff of Leavenworth County, and W. D. Parker, Agent of the State of Missouri, Respondents 1950-06-10
D. R. Maltby, Arthur Raymond Maltby and Harold L. Maltby, Appellants, v. Mary Kathleen Sumner and Milton T. Sumner, Appellees 1950-06-10
John H. Wilson, Appellee, v. Elbert S. Rule, Appellant 1950-06-10
The State of Kansas, ex rel. J. D. Conderman, County Attorney of Allen County, Kansas, Petitioner, v. Ivan R. Jones, Respondent 1950-06-24
The State of Kansas, Appellant, v. Paul Robert Simpson, Appellee 1950-07-06
P. E. Holland, Appellee, v. State Highway Commission of Kansas, Appellant 1950-07-08
In the Matter of the Petition of the City of Salina to the Board of County Commissioners of Saline County, Kansas, for Findings as to the Advisability of Adding Territory to the City of Salina. City of Salina, Appellee, v. Guy A. Thompson, Trustee of Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Appellant 1950-07-08
State of Kansas, ex rel., L. E. Weltmer, County Attorney of Jewell County, Kansas, Appellant, v. The Montrose Rural High School District of Jewell County, Kansas; A. T. Menhusen, County Superintendent of Public Instruction of Jewell County, Kansas; Roy E. Wallace, Clarence M. Ahrens and Gus Bernard, as the Board of County Commissioners of Jewell County, Kansas; E. L. Brinkworth, County Clerk of Jewell County, Kansas; and Ruth Kent, County Treasurer of Jewell County, Kansas, Appellees 1950-07-08
William J. Schroeder, Appellant, v. The Texas Company, a Corporation, Magnolia Petroleum Company, a Corporation, Lion Oil Company, a Corporation, Atlantic Refining Company, a Corporation, Artnell Company, a Corporation, The Ewers-Simpson Oil Corporation, a Corporation, Gulf Oil Corporation, a Corporation, Stanolind Oil and Gas Company, a Corporation, Joseph S. Kantor, Herndon Drilling Company, a Corporation, I. W. Murfin, W. R. Murfin, and Mercury Drilling Company, a Corporation, Appellees 1950-07-08
W. E. Beitz, Appellee, v. (C. B. Hereford, R. T. Hereford, Emerson A. Rich and Fred Fish, Defendants) C. B. Hereford and R. T. Hereford, Appellants 1950-07-08
The State of Kansas, on the Relation of Frank G. Spurney as County Attorney of Republic County, Kansas, Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. Rural High School District No. 3, Republic County, Kansas; Charles W. Stafford, Director; E. C. Stenson, Clerk of said District, Appellees and Cross-Appellants, Common School District No. 63, Republic County, Kansas; Harold R. Sankey, Director; Verl F. Beck, Clerk; and E. A. Somerholder, Treasurer of said District; and C. E. McClure, Treasurer of Rural High School District No. 3 of Republic County, Kansas, Appellants 1950-07-08
Radio Station KFH Company, Appellant, v. Musicians Association, Local No. 297, American Federation of Musicians, et al., Appellees 1950-07-08
Board of County Commissioners of Cherokee County, Appellee, v. (Myrtle Aubert, et al.,) J. R. Smith, Appellant 1950-07-08
In the Matter of the Petition of Lee Kamen, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus, Petitioner, v. Robert Gray, Sheriff of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Respondent 1950-07-08
Dorothy C. Rowe, Appellee, v. Robert L. Childers, et al. (The First National Bank in Wichita, Wichita, Kansas, a corporation, and Edith K. Mahaffey, Trustees of the E. K. Childers Trust) Appellants 1950-07-08
R. W. Pease, Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. J. R. Snyder and Leila M. Snyder, Appellants, Harry Grimm and Grace M. Grimm, Appellees 1950-07-08
Jack Marshall, Appellant, v. (L. F. Bardin and Joseph Slager, doing business as Central Airpart Company and Central Airparts, Inc., Defendants) Ray Anderson (Interpleader), Appellee 1950-07-08
Lorraine Leigh, Petitioner, v. Robert H. Hudspeth, Warden of the Kansas State Penitentiary, Respondent 1950-07-08
Wm. H. Graves, John Graves, Dwight Graves and Lowell Graves, copartners, doing business as Graves Truck Service, Appellees, v. The National Mutual Casualty Company, an Oklahoma corporation, Appellant, W. E. Ruppelius, doing business as Win-field Transfer and Storage Company, Appellant, Victor Gardinier, Appellee, the Hawkeye Casualty Company, Appellee, and Martin E. Jarvis, Administrator of the Estate of Enoch R. Stamper, deceased, Appellant 1950-07-08
Merl L. Knoblock, Appellee, v. Thomas H. Morris and Armour & Company, Appellants 1950-07-08
Wood River Oil & Refining Co., Inc., a Corporation, Appellant, v. Ed F. Madden, Milo Sidwell, C-G Drilling Co., Inc., a Kansas Corporation; C. F. Gleason, Orian Louis Atherton, Jr., and Caroline Atherton, his wife; Julia Stallings and Otto L. Stallings, her husband; Claudia I. Sanders and Earl Sanders, her husband; Mary L. Dunlap and James W. Dunlap, her husband; Nellie Capreau and Edwin Capreau, her husband; and the Unknown Heirs, Executors, Devisees, Trustees, Administrators and Assigns of Orian Louis Atherton, deceased; M. W. Patrick Barkley and Emily Barkley, his wife, Appellees 1950-07-08
Fred Brack, Appellant, v. Walter Kleweno, et al., Appellees; Elman Brack, Appellant, v. Walter Kleweno, et al., Appellees; Fred Brack, Appellant, v. Walter Kleweno, et al., Appellees 1950-07-08
The State of Kansas, Appellee, v. Eva Wilson, Appellant 1950-07-08
State of Kansas, ex rel., Harold R. Fatzer, Attorney General, Plaintiff, v. William C. Salome, Jr., L. A. Donnell, Earl K. Duke, Floyd Amsden and Russell Jump, as members of the governing body, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, and C. C. Ellis, City Clerk of said city, Defendants. (The Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Intervenors.) 1950-07-08
Fred Prideaux, Appellee, v. Violet Prideaux, Appellant 1950-07-08
Mrs. Minnie Hultberg, (Evart Mills, Administrator of the Estate of Minnie Hultberg, Deceased), Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. Ruth Phillippi, Appellant and Cross-Appellee. Iowa Home Mutual Casualty Company, Garnishee 1950-07-08
Jerecki Manufacturing Company, A Corporation, Appellee, v. Mabel G. Shields, as Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of R. H. Shileds, Deceased, Appellant 1950-07-08
State of Kansas, Appellee, v. Emmett Gatewood, Appellant 1950-08-23
State of Kansas, Appellee, v. William S. Fouts, Appellant 1950-08-31
The State of Kansas, Appellee, v. Bill Neer, Appellant 1950-10-07
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Appellee, v. H. J. Cloonan, Appellant 1950-10-07
Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Company, Inc., a Corporation, Appellant, v. State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, Jeff A. Robertson, Chairman and Commissioner, DeWitt M. Stiles, Commissioner, and Charles M. Warren, Commissioner, as members of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, and their respective successors in office, Appellees; Northern Natural Gas Company, a Corporation, Appellant, v. The State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas and Jeff A. Robertson, Chairman, DeWitt M. Stiles, Member, Charles M. Warren, Member of said Commission, and their successors in office, Appellees; Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, a Corporation, Appellant, v. The State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, Jeff A. Robertson, Chairman and Commissioner, DeWitt M. Stiles, Commissioner, and Charles M. Warren, Commissioner, as members of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, and their respective successors in office, Appellees 1950-10-07
State of Kansas ex rel. Harold R. Fatzer, Attorney General of the State of Kansas, and Harold H. Harding, County Attorney of Wyandotte County, Kansas, Plaintiff, v. The City of Kansas City, Kansas, a Municipal Corporation; Clark E. Tucker, Mayor Commissioner; Edward W. Becker, Commissioner of Finance, Health and Public Property; and Francis W. Blake, Commissioner of Boulevards, Parks and Streets, Defendants 1950-10-07