Gray v. Crockett
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Douglas District Court. Action brought March 3,1882, byR. Gray against Elizabeth I. Crockett, H. C. Long, and Martha M. Long his wife, to compel them to convey to plaintiff certain real estate. The defendants filed the following answer, omitting court and title: “First.
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Error from Douglas District Court. Action brought March 3,1882, byR. Gray against Elizabeth I. Crockett, H. C. Long, and Martha M. Long his wife, to compel them to convey to plaintiff certain real estate. The defendants filed the following answer, omitting court and title: “First. They admit that said Elizabeth I. Crockett purchased the real estate described in said petition, but without-any notice of the pretended contract set out in said petition, as alleged to be existing between said plaintiff and said defendant H. C. Long. And these defendants, further answering, say: “Second. The…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Houston, C. J.:
It is claimed by the plaintiff that the order directing the trial of this cause to be had in Douglas, instead of Wyandotte county, is void, and if not void, is at least erroneous. The order was based upon the affidavit of H. C. Long, one of the defendants, setting forth that —
“He was advised by his attorney that Hon. W. E. Wag-staff, the district judge, was a material witness for the defendants upon the trial; that he believed the advice to be true, and that he desired the testimony of the judge at the trial, and intended to procure the…
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