WHITE v. LARKIN

No. 38,088

170 Kan. 317 (1950)

224 P.2d 668

WILLIAM L. WHITE, Appellant, v. PAUL LARKIN: W.V. COVERT: PAUL LARKIN and W.V. COVERT, doing business as COVERT & LARKIN, a Partnership; J.F. PATTERSON, and HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed December 9, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.H. Coutts, Jr., was on the briefs for the appellant.

J.B. McKay, James B. McKay, Jr., and Gale Moss, all of El Dorado, and Harry O. Janicke and John A. Herlocker, both of Winfield, were on the briefs for the appellees.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

HARVEY, C.J.:

This was an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff when he was riding as a passenger on a bus owned by the defendants, Covert and Larkin, and operated by Patterson, their servant, agent and employee, in which plaintiff sought to recover both actual and punitive damages. The appeal is from an order of the court sustaining defendant's demurrer to that portion of the second amended...

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