Stewart v. Balderston
Supreme Court of Kansas
JEh'ror from Allen District Court. The only questions in this case are questions of pleading and practice. J. M. Balderston and L. W. Keplinger, as plaintiffs, filed their petition against Watson Stewart and D. B. Knmert, as defendants, containing 670 separate paragraphs, and intending therein to state 670 separate causes of action.
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JEh'ror from Allen District Court. The only questions in this case are questions of pleading and practice. J. M. Balderston and L. W. Keplinger, as plaintiffs, filed their petition against Watson Stewart and D. B. Knmert, as defendants, containing 670 separate paragraphs, and intending therein to state 670 separate causes of action. The preliminary general statement, and so much of the subsequent portions of the petition as is necessary to a proper understanding of the case, are as follows: [Caption and Title.] “ The plaintiffs say that at the time «of the performance of the acts hereinafter…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
This action was brought in the district court by Balderston and Keplinger,' as plaintiffs against Stewart and Emmert, as defendants. The plaintiffs below allege in their petition that the defendants were register and receiver of the Humboldt land office; that they illegally received $4,125 in various sums as fees from 670 different persons who purchased land at said land office, and that the said 670 persons have severally assigned their respective claims for said illegal fees to said plaintiffs, who now aslc judgment in favor of…
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