Legal Opinion

Kaw Life Ass'n v. Lemke

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided July 15, 1888PublishedCited by 19 opinions

Error from Leavenworth Eistrict Court. ACTION brought by Lemhe to recover judgment against the plaintiffs in error for $5,262, and costs, which the plaintiff claimed was due her from the defendants, plaintiffs in error, upon a policy of insurance issued by the Kaw Life Association, to Augustus Lemke, in Leavenworth county, and also upon the bond executed by the defendants other than the Kaw Life Association, in the sum of $50,000, to the state of Kansas, for the faithful…

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Error from Leavenworth Eistrict Court. ACTION brought by Lemhe to recover judgment against the plaintiffs in error for $5,262, and costs, which the plaintiff claimed was due her from the defendants, plaintiffs in error, upon a policy of insurance issued by the Kaw Life Association, to Augustus Lemke, in Leavenworth county, and also upon the bond executed by the defendants other than the Kaw Life Association, in the sum of $50,000, to the state of Kansas, for the faithful performance of the duties of the officers of the Kaw Life Association, that they would faithfully perform all the duties,…

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

ClogstoN, C.:

Plaintiffs in error now insist that the court had no jurisdiction of the defendants, or any of them, for the reason that they all resided out of Leavenworth county, and that as the court held the service as to Grant S. Hamilton void, there was no valid service upon any of the defendants. The defendant in error contends that the service upon the corporation in Wyandotte was a good service; that as the policy of insurance was issued to Lemke in Leavenworth county, the premiums paid in Leavenworth county, and the policy delivered there, and that Lemke died in Leavenworth…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Burdette v. CorganSupreme Court of Kansas · 1881
  2. Cohen v. TrowbridgeSupreme Court of Kansas · 1870
  3. Meixell v. KirkpatrickSupreme Court of Kansas · 1883
  4. Fee v. Big Sand Iron Co.Ohio Supreme Court · 1862
  5. Neskern v. Northwestern Endowment & Legacy Ass'n of MinnesotaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1883

3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Ziska v. AveySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1912
  2. Lookabaugh v. EppersonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1911
  3. Welch v. LaddSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1911
  4. Neosho Valley Investment Co. v. CornellSupreme Court of Kansas · 1899
  5. Wells v. PattonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1893

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