MEEK v. AMES

No. 39,634

177 Kan. 565 (1955)

280 P.2d 957

MAY REEDER MEEK, WILLIAM HUGHES, MARY EGBERT, BARNARD HUGHES, BERNICE SPRY, DEAN HUGHES, PHILIP HUGHES, CHARLES HUGHES, ELVINA HUGHES, MYRTLE HUGHES, HARRY D. HUGHES, VIRGIL L. HUGHES, FRANK HUGHES, CONNARD HUGHES, BLANCH FRANCKE, HARLEY BENJAMIN VAN CLEAVE, OLIVE LOUISE WOOD, and GRACE W. DONNER, Appellants, v. EARL AMES, Appellee (MARY JANE JEFFRESS, and CLARIBEL JEFFRESS, Defendants).

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed March 5, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy S. Lowe, and George A. Lowe, both of Olathe, argued the cause, and Roy Goins Lowe, of Olathe, was with them on the brief for the appellants.

Howard E. Payne, of Olathe, argued the cause, and G.A. Roberds, of Olathe, was with him on the brief for appellee.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

THIELE, J.:

This was an action in which plaintiffs sought to recover damages for the alleged wrongful detention of real estate and to have themselves declared the owners of the real estate under the will of Benjamin Reeder and entitled to possession thereof. In a former appeal the ruling of the trial court striking certain allegations of their petition was sustained and reference is made to

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