State Ex Rel. Fatzer v. Ancient Order of United Workmen

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, J.:

This is an action by the state, upon the relation of the attorney general, to recover the sum of $110,000 from the Ancient Order of United Workmen of Kansas, a corporation, a fraternal benefit insurance society (hereinafter referred to as defendant), which sum was appropriated by the 1951 legislature and paid to defendant from the general revenue fund of the state for a hospital building located on land owned by the state identified as the State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis, near Norton.

Defendant’s demurrer to the second amended petition, on…