Case Title: In Re Estate of Maguire

Citation: 206 Kan. 1, 476 P.2d 618

Docket Number: 

State: kansas

Court: Kansas Supreme Court

Date: 1970-11-07T00:00:00Z

Document:
206 Kan. 1 (1970)
476 P.2d 618
In the Matter of the Estate of John F. Maguire, Deceased,
DARLENE MAGUIRE SCARBROUGH, Appellant,
v.
LILLIAN MAGUIRE McNUTT, Individualy and as Administrator, c.t.a., d.b.n. of the Estate of John F. Maguire, Deceased, JEAN I. CECIL, KATHLEEN I. DUNCAN, and WILLIAM S. GREEN, Appellees.
No. 45,551

Supreme Court of Kansas.
Opinion on rehearing filed November 7, 1970.
Howard A. Spies, of Schroeder, Heeney, Groff, Spies & Craig, of Topeka, argued the cause, and John F. Gernon, of Hiawatha, was with him on the appellant's brief on rehearing.
No appearance was made by appellees.
OPINION ON REHEARING
The opinion of the court was delivered by
FONTRON, J.:
After our decision was handed down reversing the judgment of the district court, the appellees filed a motion for rehearing. This court granted the appellees' motion on April 12, 1970, but limited the rehearing to the following issue:
*2 In all other respects the motion for rehearing was denied. Our action in granting a limited rehearing was influenced by the fact that, as pointed out in the appellees' motion, the precise question had not been researched or briefed by either party to the appeal, and we felt that opportunity to do so should be accorded.
The case was reargued on October 2, 1970, prior to which date the appellant filed a brief on rehearing. The appellees, however, filed no additional brief to assist the court, nor were they represented by counsel at oral argument.
After hearing from the appellant's counsel upon oral argument and studying her brief on rehearing, and after referring again to appellees' original brief and motion for rehearing, we adhere to our original decision, the gist of which, so far as the limited rehearing is concerned, was that an option granted to two or more optionees must be exercised by them jointly, in the absence of circumstances clearly indicating a contrary intention on the part of the optionor and, further, that no clear contrary intent was indicated in this case.
Inasmuch as syllabi 6 and 7 do not completely reflect the court's opinion on the question presented on rehearing, these syllabi are hereby modified to read as follows:
A typographical error has been noted in the citation from Restatement, Property, Volume IV, p. 2315, which we wish to correct at this time, inasmuch as the error changes the entire sense of the cited text. In the first paragraph the word "valid" appears. The word should be "invalid" and the quotation should read as follows:
Except as modified herein our original opinion is affirmed.