M. K. & T. Railway Co. v. Brown
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Labette District Court. Brown brought suit in his own name as plaintiff against the M. K. & T. Railway Co. as defendant.
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Error from Labette District Court. Brown brought suit in his own name as plaintiff against the M. K. & T. Railway Co. as defendant. The following is plaintiff’s- bill of particulars, originally filed in a justice’s court: (Title.) .“The plaintiff M. G. Brown says, that the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company was on the 18th of November 1872, and has been ever since, and is now, a corporation duly organized under the laws of the • state of Kansas, and was then and has been ever since, and is now doing business as such corporation in the county of Labette and state aforesaid; that said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
This was an action originally commenced by Brown before a justice of the peace, seeking to hold the railway company, for debts created by one W. B. McLeod, under and by virtue of ch. 136 of the laws of 1872. That act is entitled, “An act to protect laborers, mechanics and others in the construction of railroads,” and provides that a railroad company shall take a bond with certain conditions from any person to whom it lets a contract for the construction of its road, or any part of it, or become itself liable to the laborers employed by him.…
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