Johnston v. Lanter

Decided April 11, 1914

Supreme Court of Kansas · decided 1914-04-11

<p>Appeal from Johnson district court; Jabez O. Rankin, judge.</p>

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““By denying the plaintiff’s motion for judgment on the special findings and granting his motion for a new trial the court indicated dissatisfaction with the findings as well as. with the general verdict, and judgment on the special findings will not be directed in favor of the plaintiff.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Shrout v. Bird

Relies on Bourquin v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Affirmed · Decided 1914-04-11

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1997

1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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Per Curiam:

¶1The judgment of the district court sustaining the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial is affirmed on the authority of the case of Bourquin v. Railway Co., 88 Kan. 183, 127 Pac. 770, which states the practice in this state as settled by a long line of decisions.

¶2By denying the plaintiff’s motion for judgment on the special findings and granting his motion for a new trial the court indicated dissatisfaction with the findings as well as with the general verdict, and judgment on the special findings will not be directed in favor of the plaintiff.