Johnson v. Hensley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wedell, J.:

This was a proceeding in mandamus to compel the members of the board of managers for the Kansas soldiers’ home at Fort Dodge to admit to that institution the wife of the plaintiff, the latter being a Spanish American War veteran, who was already an inmate of that institution. The plaintiff prevailed, and defendants appeal from the order sustaining plaintiff’s motion to quash defendants’ answer to the alternative writ and from the judgment granting the peremptory writ.

The pertinent averments of the alternative writ, in substance, were:…