Legal Opinion

Clark v. Coolidge

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided July 15, 1871PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Error from Lea/oenrmorth District Cowrt. Action upon, a stipulation or agreement in a lease to pay taxes, etc. GooUdge owned lot 14, in block 76, in Leavenworth city. In 1865 be leased said lot to Gla/rh for a term of five years.

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Error from Lea/oenrmorth District Cowrt. Action upon, a stipulation or agreement in a lease to pay taxes, etc. GooUdge owned lot 14, in block 76, in Leavenworth city. In 1865 be leased said lot to Gla/rh for a term of five years. Both parties signed the lease, which, contained the stipulation, among others, that said Gla/rh should pay “ any and all assessments, general or special, which may hereafter be charged or assessed against the said lot above described, for grading, paving, macadamizing the streets, or for curbing sidewalks, or any and all assessments of any kind and nature that may be…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Yalenunb, J.:

There are twenty-two assignments of error *194in this case, but in our opinion it is not necessary to consider more than one of them. In passing the other assignments we will say however, but without deciding the questions involved therein, that we have not discovered any error except such as we shall hereafter mention.

The facts in this case so far as they affect the question which we propose to discuss seem to be substantially as follows: On the 8th of September, 1865, William H. Coolidge leased to Thomas R. Clark lot 14, Block 76, of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Otis v. SillNew York Supreme Court · 1849
  2. Whitaker v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1849

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Ayres v. ProbascoSupreme Court of Kansas · 1875
  2. Shamleffer v. Council Grove Peerless Mill Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1877
  3. Rambo v. First State BankSupreme Court of Kansas · 1912
  4. Dent v. SmithSupreme Court of Kansas · 1907
  5. Welsbach Street Lighting Co. v. City of WichitaSupreme Court of Kansas · 1917

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