Legal Opinion
City of Kanopolis v. Mountain
Supreme Court of Kansas
Decided March 5, 1938No. 33,574PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dawson, C. J.:
The city of Kanopolis brought this action to recover or cancel a refunding bond of the city which it had entrusted to the custody of one R. E. Booth, Jr., a bond broker, who breached his trust and without right thereto delivered the bond to the defendant, Helen F. Mountain, as security for a debt he owed to her.
In 1933 the city of Kanopolis had an outstanding bond debt of some $25,000, which it determined to refund. There was no attorney resident in Kanopolis and it had no regularly employed city attorney. To procure the services of an…
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3Cited by3 opinions
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