Pfefferle v. Board of Commissioners
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Lyon District Court. Oswald Peekerle commenced an action in the district court of Lyon county against the board of county commissioners of that county, and in such action filed the following petition, (omitting title and signature,) to wit: “The plaintiff'in the above-entitled cause, for his cause of action against the said defendant, states that the said defendant was, is and for more than five years last past has been, a duly organized county of the state of…
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Error from Lyon District Court. Oswald Peekerle commenced an action in the district court of Lyon county against the board of county commissioners of that county, and in such action filed the following petition, (omitting title and signature,) to wit: “The plaintiff'in the above-entitled cause, for his cause of action against the said defendant, states that the said defendant was, is and for more than five years last past has been, a duly organized county of the state of Kansas for judicial purposes under the name of Lyon county, situate in the fifth judicial district of the state of Kansas;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
For the purposes of this case we shall assume that all the matters and things set forth in the plaintiff's petition filed in the court below are true, although it can scarcely be conceived that a county jail in any county of this state would be permitted to be and remain in the condition in which the county jail in the present instance is alleged to be. The question then arises: Is a county liable for negligently permitting its jail to become and remain in such a bad and unwholesome condition that its inmates must necessarily become sick…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Kretchmar v. City of AtchisonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1931
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