State ex rel. Boynton v. Wheat Farming Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

The defendant corporation is in a receivership (State, ex rel., v. Wheat Farming Co., 137 Kan. 697, 22 P. 2d 1093), *283the duration of which has been protracted owing to litigation in the federal courts (Lillard v. Lonergan, 72 F. 2d 865; id., 293 U. S. 615, 79 L. Ed. 704), and by financial difficulties and other complications of its business affairs, and by the presently unmarketable character of its fragmentary assets which chiefly consist of western Kansas lands.

The particular matter of present concern pertains to the claims of some…