MARTIN v. DAVIS

No. 42,026

187 Kan. 473 (1960)

357 P.2d 782

KEITH MARTIN, Appellant, v. JOSEPH S. DAVIS AS PROBATE JUDGE OF JOHNSON COUNTY, KANSAS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed December 10, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith Martin, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Mission, Kansas, argued the cause pro se, and Howard E. Payne, W.C. Jones and H. Thomas Payne, of Olathe, were with him on the briefs for appellant.

John J. Gardner, County Attorney, of Olathe, argued the cause and was on the briefs for the appellee.

D.B. Lang, of counsel, Bar Association of Kansas, of Scott City, James E. Fussell, of counsel, Leavenworth County Bar Association, of Leavenworth, and Willard L. Phillips, James K. Cubbison, Lee E. Weeks, Edward M. Boddington, Sr., Charles F. Williams, Joseph T. Carey and Bernard W. Alden, all of Kansas City, were on the briefs of the Wyandotte County Bar Association as amicus curiae.

George A. Lowe, Eugene T. Hackler, Roy S. Lowe, Hugh H. Kreamer and James H. Bradley, of Olathe, and Bernis G. Terry, of Mission, were on the briefs of the Johnson County Bar Association as amicus curiae.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

FATZER, J.:

At issue is the power of the supreme court of Kansas to control and supervise the practice of law before the courts of the state by Kansas licensed attorneys regularly engaged in the practice of law in another state.

The action was one in mandamus to compel the appellee, the probate judge of Johnson County, Kansas, to permit the plaintiff, Keith Martin...

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