The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-06

Thru her will the estate was divided
! one-half to Leon Broquet of Tournia,
Belgium, and the remaining one-hah
among the five children of Ernest
Broquet.
Rancher's Strange Romance.
An important factor in the case is
the strange romance of Ernest Bro
Duet, Kansas rancher. He married
! in OsSeso. Kan. in 1875 and lived
! with his wife the mother of his five
children, until May %. 1895. when
Broquet obtained a divorce from Mary
Broquet. On July 1. 1895, Broquet
married Marinita de Romero, an ac-
tress. in New York City They lived
together in New York and Kansas City
until 1897, when a divorce was grant
ed Thus according TO Miss Lacita
Broquet's petition. she was born dur
ing the marriage contract of her
mother and Ernest Broquet. Broquet
/ died in 1905.
plaintiff and certain other parties
were endeavoring to perpetrate
fraud by the claim that she was Bro
quet's daughter; that she was several
years older than she represented her
self to be and was not born following
the marriage of Ernest Broquet and
! Marinita Broquet, and that prior to
| bringing the suit the plaintiff had
I been known as Gertrude Teyis.
of Ernest Broquet. He organized the
Norton Investment company which
bought all the interests of the heirs
to Nine. We Broduet Delcourts estate,
which has been settled several years
Try Case in Either County.
The Kansas supreme court held to-
day that man might be shot or poi
son administered in one county and
his death occur in another county "a nd
he he ri in aif
county.
This was the decision in the appeal
Of Peter Cripui. from Sedgwick
county. Criqui shot John w. Jones
days later Jones was taken to his
home in Wichita and died seven
months later. Criqui was tried and
convicted of manslaughter in the
sjcdgwick county district court but ap-
pealed to the supreme court that the
conviction was improper as the actual
-hooting occurred in Usage county.
The supreme court held that the
technical demands of Criqui's attorney
we're just about as important as the
question OF which was entitled to pre-
ccdent the egg or the hen" The
court held that the question was one
of justice being done and punish
mcnt being inflicted where crime
had been committed and it didn't
make very much difference where the
accomplished.
/ Must Guard Trade Secrets.
! A man who obtains trade secrets or
confidential information while in the
employ of another cannot disclose
these secrets or use the information
for his own or another persons bene-
fit. This was the decision of the Kan
sas supreme court in the suitsof R. N.
! Morrison, against B. H Woodbury., ap-
pealed from Douglas county. Wood
/ bury was a. fire insurance agent work.
| ing for Morrison. When he was dis
| charged he had some books showing
the date when Insurance policies ex-
pired. He refused to return the books
and the lower court held that there
was no property value in them and
/ there was no way for Morrison to get
his books back. Morrison brought
suit to prevent the information in the
/ books being used by his former agent.
| The supreme court held that there
! was . property value to this Informal
/ ton and that Morrison was entitled to
the complete possession and use of the
expiration book.
Companies Must Give Notice.
Policies covering industrial insur-
ance shall not be lapsed by companies
engaged in business in Kansas until
the company has first notified the
policyholders that a lapse is to be de-
/ clared for non-payment of premiums
1 That was the decision of the Kansas
supreme court today in the case of
Samuel E. Reynolds in the estate of
Alice NJ. McCollum against the Metro
| politan Life Insurance company.
Under the law of this state any life
4 insurance company other than fra
ternal is prohibited from forfeiting or
cancelling a policy on account of nom
payment of premium without first CIV
| ing notice in writing to the policy
holder. The Interpretation of the law,
tho, was never carried to the extent
OF including industrial policies issued
! upon payment of monthly or weekly
! premiums In the Reynolds case
which came to the supreme court from
J Clay county. a decision by the district