Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas (Volume 48) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. Excerpt: ... INDEX. ABUTTER: Street--Improvement by County--Liability of Abutter. A lotowner who voluntarily invokes for his benefit the provisions of chapter 214, Laws of 1887, for the purpose of improving a public street contiguous to his lots, under the pretense that the street is a county road, and signs a petition under the provisions of that statute to the board of county commissioners, in which he asks for the improvement subsequently made; lives in the immediate neighborhood of the improvement; and his property is benefited by said improvement, cannot be protected by a court of equity from the inevitable consequences of his act in signing the petition and invoking the benefit of the statute. (The case of Stewart v. Comm'rs of Wyandotte Co., 45 Kas. 708, cited and followed.) Comm'rs of Wyandotte Co. v. Hoag 413 ACCEPTANCE: Offer--Unreasonable Delay. A proposition to pay $350 for a car load of apples, submitted by mail to the vendor, but declined the next day, and eight days later accepted by such vendor, imposes no obligation upon the parties making the same. The offer, having been declined, was at an end, unless renewed by the vendees. It is incumbent upon a party to whom a contract is submitted by post to signify his acceptance of the same within a reasonable time, if he desires to take the benefits of it. Richardson v. Lenhard 629 ACCOUNT--See "action," 3. ACCOUNTING--See "pbincipai, And Agent." ACTION: 1. Water Company--Insufficient Supply of Watei Damage by Fire--Liability. Where a oity contracts with a water company to furnish a supply of water for use in extinguishing fires, such supply to be paid for by a levy of taxes upon the tax-payers of the city, and by the terms of the city ordinance, which the water company accepts, the water company agrees "that...