Hicks v. Kansas Soldiers' Compensation Board

*904The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harvey, J.:.

These were claims for compensation under our soldiers’ compensation law (Laws 1921, ch. 255; Laws 1923, ch: 200, and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto; G. S. 1935, ch. 73, art. 1). On appeal from the soldiers’ compensation board they were tried separately in the court below, but have been consolidated here because the legal question argued is the same in each of them. Each of the claimants was able to make a showing in the trial court, by parol evidence, that he was a resident of the state of Kansas at the time he entered the…