City of Wellington v. Wellington Township
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Sumner District Court. Action brought by the City of Wellington to quiet its title to certain real estate. Each of the defendants demurred to the plaintiff’s petition, on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. Trial at the November term, 1887, Hon. R. B. Shepard, judge pro tern., presiding. The court sustained the several demurrers, and the City brings the case to this court. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Simpson, C.:
The material facts are, that on or before the 5th day of September, 1873, all the territory embraced in the present city of Wellington, the township of Wellington, and, a portion of that embraced in each of the other defendant townships, constituted one single township, known as “Wellington township;” that on that day, one Henry H. Davidson, being the owner in fee-simple of certain *215real estate, conveyed to the said township of Wellington lots 11 and 12, in block 53, in the original town (now city) of Wellington; that a part consideration for said conveyance (was the…
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