Hicks v. Nelson

It was urged in support of a rehearing of this ease that the former opinion was in conflict with Cable v. Coates, 36 Kas. 191. Cable v. Coates followed English v. Williamson, 34 Kas. 212. The opinion, however, in the former case failed to state, as it should have done, that September 4, 1881, was Sunday. In the case of English v. Williamson, it was said that —

“Under the statute above quoted, (Civil Code, §722,) when the last day comes on Sunday, that day, as well as the first, shall be excluded, and we suppose our tax laws, as well as all other statutes, were enacted with reference to this…