Legal Opinion
Stone v. Dysert
Supreme Court of Kansas
Decided January 15, 1878PublishedCited by 3 opinions
Error from Franklin District Court. Action by Dysert and Combs to recover a reward offered for tbe arrest of an escaped prisoner. All the facts appear in the opinion. Trial at March Term 1877. Verdict and judgment for plaintiffs, and Stone, defendant, brings the case here.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
This was an action brought to recover the amount of a reward claimed to have been offered by the plaintiff in error, who was the defendant in the court below. At the trial the plaintiff offered the following testimony:
“Z. Combs, one of the plaintiffs, testified: Dysert and myself caught John Heberlin at Le Loup, in this (Franklin) county, and started down to Ottawa to put him in jail. I did not *124know where we might go with him. On the road Jenness, (sheriff of Franklin county,) met us, and demanded Heberlin. We turned him over to him, and…
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