CROPP v. WOLESLAGEL

Nos. 46,295, 46,294 and 46,342 (CONSOLIDATED)

207 Kan. 627 (1971)

485 P.2d 1271

LEE CROPP, an Individual, and ELMER E. FOX, et al., d/b/a ELMER FOX and COMPANY, a partnership, Plaintiffs-Petitioners, v. FREDERICK WOLESLAGEL, Judge 20th Judicial District, Division No. 1, Defendant-Respondent. NORMAN A. GROOMS, Plaintiff-Petitioner, v. FREDERICK WOLESLAGEL, Judge 20th Judicial District, Division No. 1, Defendant-Respondent. LESTER L. VALENTINE, Plaintiff-Petitioner, v. FREDERICK WOLESLAGEL, Judge 20th Judicial District, Division No. 1, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed June 12, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward G. Collister, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause, and Vern Miller, Attorney General, was with him on the brief for the defendant-respondent.

J. Eugene Balloun, of Turner and Balloun, Chartered, of Great Bend, argued the cause, and Lee Turner of the same firm was with him on the brief for the plaintiffs-petitioners.

Payne H. Ratner, Jr., of Wichita, was on the brief for the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, amicus curiae.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

KAUL, J.:

This is an original proceeding in mandamus wherein plaintiffs ask us to issue a peremptory writ directing the defendant to rescind an order made at a pretrial conference directing plaintiffs to disclose the policy limits of their liability insurance.

The issue is identical in all three of the above entitled cases and the parties have stipulated that the decision in No. 46,295 will be controlling....

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