Hampton v. State Highway Commission

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Foth, C.:

This is a highway defect case under K. S. A. 68-419 in which the jury awarded plaintiff a general verdict of four hundred fifty thousand dollars ($450,000.00) for his personal injuries and the loss of his automobile. The defendant Kansas state highway commission appeals.

The alleged defect involves an accumulation of water in the west-bound lane of a portion of U. S. Highway 56 which, at the time of plaintiff’s injuries, was just south of the limits of the city of Olathe. (It has since been annexed.) The highway here is a four lane east-west…