State ex rel. Lewis v. Williams
Supreme Court of Kansas
Jfirrror from Pratt District Court. On July 10, 1885, the county attorney of Pratt county instituted an action in the district court against Eli P. Williams, and the petition filed contained the following allegations: “ D. C. Lewis, county attorney of Pratt county, Kansas, who sues for the state of Kansas, in this behalf comes now here and gives the court to understand and be informed, that the state of Kansas was, on the 13th day of October, 1884, the owner in fee simple of…
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Jfirrror from Pratt District Court. On July 10, 1885, the county attorney of Pratt county instituted an action in the district court against Eli P. Williams, and the petition filed contained the following allegations: “ D. C. Lewis, county attorney of Pratt county, Kansas, who sues for the state of Kansas, in this behalf comes now here and gives the court to understand and be informed, that the state of Kansas was, on the 13th day of October, 1884, the owner in fee simple of the following-described lands and tenements, situate in the county of Pratt, state of Kansas, to wit, the south half of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J.:
*5201. Fraud charged; specifi *519The sale of school lands sought to be set aside in this action does not depend upon a settlement or upon the improvements made thereon by the purchaser. The only specific facts alleged in the petition as grounds for invalidating the sale are, that the petition presented to the county superintendent requesting him to cause a sale of the land was not sufficient, and that proper appraisers were not appointed. It is said that of the persons whose names were appended, only seventeen were at the time of presentation…
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