Sharpe v. Williams
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Wilson District Court. During the winter of 1884 and 1885, James C. Williams, defendant in error, was teaching school in district number 64, Wilson county. Among his pupils were Dayton Sharpe, Philip Starr, J. E. Anderson, E. S. Carter, and John Beaumont jr. On the U7th of January, 1885, they asked the teacher to promise to treat; -he declined to make them any promise, and stepping out of the school-room to get a bucket of coal, they locked him out.
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Error from Wilson District Court. During the winter of 1884 and 1885, James C. Williams, defendant in error, was teaching school in district number 64, Wilson county. Among his pupils were Dayton Sharpe, Philip Starr, J. E. Anderson, E. S. Carter, and John Beaumont jr. On the U7th of January, 1885, they asked the teacher to promise to treat; -he declined to make them any promise, and stepping out of the school-room to get a bucket of coal, they locked him out. After parleying with the boys, and trying in vain to get into the school-room, he went away without teaching that afternoon; the next…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Holt, C.:
We are confronted at the threshold of the examination of this action, with the claim that there has been a settlement between plaintiff and John Beaumont jr., one of the defendants. The defendants claim the law to be, where several unite to do an unlawful act, and in fur*63therance of the common purpose another is injured, they all are jointly liable for the injury done, “and there could be no severance of the liability of those who committed or aided in the commission of the trespass,” and say if the plaintiff absolutely released one of the joint trespassers from his…
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