Mank v. Southern Kansas Stage Lines Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This was an action by the owners of a garage to recover from the defendant, The Southern Kansas Stage Lines Company, the balance of a second year’s rent of the garage under the renewal statute, R. S. 67-502, on the strength of the claim that by the purchase of the business, rights and assets of the lessee as a motor carrier the defendant assumed the liabilities of the lessee carrier, including the liability of said renewed lease. The appeal is by the defendant from the orders of the trial court overruling its demurrer to the amended…