Gafney v. Wilson County Hospital

Plaintiffs have invoked our original jurisdiction in mandamus to compel defendants to extend to plaintiffs as duly licensed osteopathic physicians the right to use the county hospital for the purpose of treating their patients.

To the alternative writ allowed, defendants have filed a motion to quash, on 'various grounds, the first of which is that plaintiffs have no legal capacity to maintain the action. So far as concerns the plaintiff Gaffney, the motion is not good, under many of our precedents. (Kittredge v. Boyd, 136 Kan. 691, 18 P. 2d 536; Kern v. Newton City Commissioners, 147 Kan. 471…