Legal Opinion

State v. Pipher

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided January 15, 1882PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Original Proceedings in Quo Warranto. Action brought originally in this court December 31,1881, by the attorney general, in the name of The State of Kansas, against John Pipher and others, to obtain a judicial dissolution of the corporate existence of the Blue Mont Central College association. The facts appear in the opinion filed hérein, at the June, 1882, sitting of this court. Non-user, is sufficient ground for declaring a forfeiture.

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Original Proceedings in Quo Warranto. Action brought originally in this court December 31,1881, by the attorney general, in the name of The State of Kansas, against John Pipher and others, to obtain a judicial dissolution of the corporate existence of the Blue Mont Central College association. The facts appear in the opinion filed hérein, at the June, 1882, sitting of this court. Non-user, is sufficient ground for declaring a forfeiture. (Field’s Ultra Vires, 326; Green’s Brice’s Ultra Vires, 647; ■6 Ind. 469; 9 Cranch, 51; 8 Pet. 287; 19 Johns. 463; 32 Mich. 248; 11 Vt. 431; 24 id; 238; 8 R.…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Yalentine, J.:

This is a civil action in the nature of ■quo warranto, brought by the attorney general in the name of the state of Kansas, to obtain a judicial determination dissolving the corporate existence of the Blue Mont Central *130College association. This association was organized in the year 1858, under an act of the legislature'of the territory of Kansas, approved February 9, 1858, (Private Laws of 1858, p. 75.) The objects of the association, as expressed in its charter, were the promotion of education and science, the conducting of experiments in…

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. Leonard v. HartzlerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1913
  2. Eureka Light & Ice Co. v. City of EurekaCourt of Appeals of Kansas · 1897
  3. Morford v. Trustees of the Middletown AcademyCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1940
  4. Kansas State Bank v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1926

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