Field v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

These cases involve the validity of the statute providing for the improvement of country roads, and also of proceedings taken under the statute. In each of the cases the court sustained a demurrer to plaintiffs’ petition, thereby upholding the validity of the statute and the proceedings taken under it, and from these rulings plaintiffs appeal.

The plaintiffs attacked the validity of the statute upon many grounds, but their contentions were fully considered, and rejected, in The State, ex rel., v. Raub, 106 Kan. 196, 186 Pac. 989. Having…