Kansas Electric Power Co. v. Walker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This was an action where the plaintiff, operating a passenger bus line in the city of Lawrence, asked for an injunction against the owners of a block of lots across which the plaintiff was running its buses, when the owners fenced up the passageway and refenced the openings thereto as the plaintiff tore them down.

The main defense was abandonment by discontinuing to operate the electric streetcar line and substituting therefor the motorbus line.

The trial court made findings of fact and conclusions of law, holding that the change from a…