Raymond v. City of Wichita
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Sedgwick district court; Preston B. Gillett, .judge pro tern. STATEMENT. This was an action of ejectment brought by Osie A. Raymond to recover from the city of Wichita a strip of land 54 feet wide by 431 feet long, being the north 54 feet of what is known as Douglas avenue, in the city of Wichita, between Wichita street and Waco avenue.
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Error from Sedgwick district court; Preston B. Gillett, .judge pro tern. STATEMENT. This was an action of ejectment brought by Osie A. Raymond to recover from the city of Wichita a strip of land 54 feet wide by 431 feet long, being the north 54 feet of what is known as Douglas avenue, in the city of Wichita, between Wichita street and Waco avenue. In 1871 William Griffenstein acquired land on the south of what is now the north line of Douglas avenue, and laid out Griffenstein’s first addition to Wichita, which extended from Lawrence avenue on the east to Water street on the west, and on the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
William R. Smith, J. :
It is unnecessary in arriving at a conclusion to comment on each of the fifteen assignments of error contained in the brief of counsel who contend for a reversal of the judgment. A general discussion of the rules of law applicable to the facts will be sufficient.
The chief contention of plaintiff below in the trial court, and renewed here, was that the city of Wichita gained no rights to the land which is the subject of the action prior to May, 1888, when it was brought into the corporate limits. A further claim of plaintiff below,…
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