Little v. Evans
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Johnson District Court. This was an action brought by William M. Evans against John T. JAttle, C. Dwyer, John Jackson and W. P. K. Hedrick, to perpetually enjoin the defendants from collecting and enforcing a certain judgment previously'rendered by a justice of the peace of Johnson county against the plaintiff, Evans.
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Error from Johnson District Court. This was an action brought by William M. Evans against John T. JAttle, C. Dwyer, John Jackson and W. P. K. Hedrick, to perpetually enjoin the defendants from collecting and enforcing a certain judgment previously'rendered by a justice of the peace of Johnson county against the plaintiff, Evans. The petition of the plaintiff, omitting caption and signatures, reads as follows: “Now comes the plaintiff herein, and for his cause of action against the above-named defendants, says: That heretofore, to wit, on the-day of April, 1886, he filed a complaint in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
The only question involved in this case is one with reference to the validity or invalidity of a certain judgment rendered in a case of misdemeanor by a justice of the peace of Johnson county against William M. Evans, the defendant in error, who was the prosecuting witness in that case. Evans claims that such judgment is void for the reason among others that justices of the peace in eases like the present have no power under the laws of Kansas to render a judgment against the prosecuting witness. There is no pretense that the judgment in…
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