Harris v. Shanahan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, J.:

The nature, facts and history of this action are set forth in our earlier opinions of January 31, 1963 (Harris v. Shanahan, 191 Kan. 1, 378 P. 2d 157), and December 5, 1963 (Harris v. Shanahan, 192 Kan. 183, 387 P. 2d 771), the latter having declared both the 1963 apportionment of the Senate, enacted by Senate Bill 440 (Laws 1963, Ch. 13), and the 1961 apportionment of the House of Representatives (G. S. 1961 Supp., 4-103) to be unconstitutional and void. Having thus ruled, we said:

“It is a matter of public knowledge that the legislature…