Steele v. City of Wichita

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Six, J.:

This is a first-impression statutory interpretation case coming to us as a declaratory judgment action seeking: (1) a determination that persons, duly appointed as general process servers under K.S.A. Í991 Supp. 60-303(c)(3), have the authority and power to serve all process, including writs of execution and orders of attachment; and (2) an injunction enjoining the City of Wichita (City) from interfering with such service of process.

Eight individual plaintiffs, Robert Steele, Sheldon Wulf, Ronald Waits, Gary Davis, Gareth Smith, Bill Warfield,…