STATE EX REL. STEPHAN v. MARTIN

No. 53,478

230 Kan. 759 (1982)

641 P.2d 1020

STATE OF KANSAS, ex rel., ROBERT T. STEPHAN, Attorney General, Petitioner, v. PHILIP W. MARTIN, Director of Property Valuation, Kansas Department of Revenue, Respondent, and THE KANSAS FARM BUREAU, INC., THE KANSAS LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION, INC., and THE KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF WHEAT GROWERS, INC., Intervenors.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed February 27, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney J. Bieker, assistant attorney general, argued the cause, and Robert T. Stephan, attorney general, and Dan Biles, assistant attorney general, were with him on the brief for the petitioner.

Alan F. Alderson, general counsel, Kansas Department of Revenue, argued the cause and was on the brief for the respondent.

E. Richard Brewster, of Gehrt & Roberts, Chartered, of Topeka, and Charles S. Arthur, of Arthur, Green, Arthur & Conderman, of Manhattan, argued the cause and were on the brief for the intervenors.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

MILLER, J.:

This is an original action in quo warranto brought by the State on relation of the attorney general against the respondent, Philip W. Martin, director of property valuation of the Kansas Department of Revenue, seeking a determination of the constitutionality of Section 1 of Chapter 373 of the 1981 Session Laws of Kansas, now K.S.A. 1981 Supp. 79-343. We will refer to it hereafter as "Section 343." It establishes...

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