WILL v. CITY OF HERINGTON

No. 45,093

201 Kan. 627 (1968)

443 P.2d 667

MARVIN WILL, Appellee, v. THE CITY OF HERINGTON, KANSAS, (JOHN A. NAGELY, Mayor; D.C. MEULI, Commissioner of Finance & Revenue; LESTER B. BEAMES, Commissioner of Streets & Public Utilities), Appellant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed July 13, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Butler, Jr., city attorney and Edwin G. Westerhaus, of Marion, argued the cause and were on the brief for the appellant.

John F. Christner, of Abilene, argued the cause and was on the brief for the appellee.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

HARMAN, C.:

This contest concerns a city's liability for compensation of a member of its police department.

Herington is a city of the second class with a mayor-commission form of government. Appellee Marvin Will, a resident of Herington, became a police officer of that city in the summer of 1965. On August 1, 1966, one Charles Edmonson, who had previously been appointed assistant chief of police, resigned...

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