Legal Opinion

Cusic v. Douglas

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided February 15, 1865PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Error from Leavenworth County. The facts of the case appear in the opinion of the court. The debt was contracted prior to the admission of Kansas, and judgment in justice court against plaintiff in error was recovered by defendant in error, Douglas, prior to said admission, but the transcript of the judgment was filed in the District Court after the admission of the state.

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Error from Leavenworth County. The facts of the case appear in the opinion of the court. The debt was contracted prior to the admission of Kansas, and judgment in justice court against plaintiff in error was recovered by defendant in error, Douglas, prior to said admission, but the transcript of the judgment was filed in the District Court after the admission of the state. The record also shows that the title to the property levied on was acquired after the rendition of that judgment and after the filing of the transcript in the District Court. Plaintiff in error contends that the property…

1Opinion of the Court

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Ciíozier, C. J.

On the 27th day of August, A. D. 1860, John O. Douglas, one of the defendants in error, before a justice of the peace in Leavenworth county, recovered a judgment against Mary Ousic, the plaintiff in error for one hundred dollars and costs of suit, and on the 25th day of March, A. D. 1861, caused to be filed in the office of the clerk of the District Court for said county a transcript of that judgment. In the year 1863, Mrs. Ousic became the owner of three lots in Leavenworth, upon which is a large brick house. The lots are all in one inclosure and the whole is…

2Cited by16 opinions

  1. Independent Cotton Oil Co. v. BeachamSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1911
  2. Estate of Johnson v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1969
  3. Andrade v. AndradeArizona Supreme Court · 1912
  4. Deering v. BoyleSupreme Court of Kansas · 1871
  5. Iowa Mutual Insurance v. ParrSupreme Court of Kansas · 1962

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