Legal Opinion

Bonifant v. Doniphan

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided July 15, 1864PublishedCited by 17 opinions

Error from Leavenworth County. This action was commenced on the 81st day of July, A. D. 1863, by Bonifant, plaintiff in error, to recover $1,819.65, the amount of a promissory note executed at Weston in the state of Missouri, on the 30th day of May, 1860, by James E. Walker and John Doniphan, payable to plaintiff one year after thatgdate.

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Error from Leavenworth County. This action was commenced on the 81st day of July, A. D. 1863, by Bonifant, plaintiff in error, to recover $1,819.65, the amount of a promissory note executed at Weston in the state of Missouri, on the 30th day of May, 1860, by James E. Walker and John Doniphan, payable to plaintiff one year after thatgdate. The defendant, Doniphan, having property in this state, an order of attachment issued with the summons, and certain lands were thereunder attached. The defendants first answered by putting in a general denial; after which, defendant Doniphan, on leave, filed…

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court,

Crozier, C. J.

A suit was instituted in the District Court of Leavenworth county by the plaintiff in error against the defendants in error on the 31st day of July, 1863, upon a prom*33issory note executed in Missouri on the 30th of May, 1860, payable in one year after date. The petition after the usual allegations, contained the following: • “ That at the time before and since this cause of action accrued against the defendants, they the said defendants were out of the state of Kansas, and non-residents thereof, and have thus been and remained absent and non-resident for the last two…

2Cited by17 opinions

  1. Alston v. AlstonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1901
  2. Bauserman v. CharlottSupreme Court of Kansas · 1891
  3. Ætna Life Insurance v. KoonsSupreme Court of Kansas · 1881
  4. Williams v. Metropolitan Street-railway Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1903
  5. Beebe v. DosterSupreme Court of Kansas · 1887

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