BAUMANN v. SMRHA

Civ. A. No. T-1228.

145 F.Supp. 617 (1956)

J. H. BAUMANN and Marguerite Marie Jacobson, Plaintiffs, v. Robert V. SMRHA, as Chief Engineer of the Division of Water Resources of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, Defendant, and City of Wichita, Kansas, Intervener.

United States District Court D. Kansas.

April 30, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth G. Speir, Vernon A. Stroberg, Herbert H. Sizemore, and Richard F. Hrdlicka, Newton, Kan., for plaintiffs.

Harold R. Fatzer, Atty. Gen., for the State of Kansas.

Paul E. Wilson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Warden L. Noe, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Fred W. Aley, Robert B. Morton, and Paul J. Donaldson, Wichita, Kan., for intervenor, City of Wichita, Kan.

Daniel R. Hopkins, Garden City, for Finney County Water Users Ass'n, South Side Irr. Co., Kearny County Farmers Irr. Ass'n, Garden City Ditch Co., United States Irrigating Co., and Earl C. Brookover, amici curiæ.

Arno Windscheffel, Smith Center, Kan., for Kirwin Irr. Dist., amicus curiæ.

N. J. Ward, Belleville, Kan., for Kansas Bostwick Irr. Dist., amicus curiæ.

Before HUXMAN and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, and MELLOTT, District Judge.


PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

This action was instituted on August 16, 1955, in the above court, by J. H. Baumann and Marguerite Marie Jacobson, plaintiffs, under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 2201, 2281 and 2284, against Robert V. Smrha, defendant, Chief Engineer of the Division of Water Resources of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture. This action arises under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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