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- Title: Hampton v. State Highway Commission
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 10, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 80 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is a highway defect case under K.S.A. 68-419 in which the
jury awarded plaintiff a general verdict of four hundred fifty
thousand dollars ($450,000.00) for his personal injuries and the
loss of his automobile. The defendant Kansas state highway
commission appeals. The alleged defect involves an accumulation of water in the
west-bound lane of a portion of U.S. Highway 56 which, at the
time of plaintiff's injuries, was just south of the limits of the
city of Olathe. (It has since been annexed.) The highway here is
a four lane east-west road divided by a ten foot median strip.
Each
[209 Kan. 567]