State ex rel. Smith v. Kansas Wheat Growers Ass'n

The state brings quo warranto to forfeit the charter of the defendant association, which was organized in 1921 under the cooperative marketing act (R. S. 17-1601 et seq.), which authorized the formation of such corporations by any group of twenty persons engaged in agriculture and related activities.

The principal matters alleged in the state’s petition as the basis of this action pertain to a series of frauds practiced by some of the members of the corporation against other members in the matter of certain agreements entered into between them prior to the organization of the corporation but…