The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-10
BEATS H. C. OF |.
John F. Hanson Lives on Fifty
Cents Per Week.
Still Hopeful of Collecting
$4,000 Damage Suit.
BUTTERMILK is MAIN DIET
Buys Bread Two Days Old for
Half Price.
His Fifty-CentS-a.Week Diet
Agrees With Him.
DUTTERMILK is MAIN DIET

Still hopeful that he will be able
to collect $4,000 from the Kansas
supreme court because for five years
it has denied him the right to pPa ctice
law. John F. Hanson, of Lindsborg,
asserts he finds that making a liveli-
hood is not a serious matter, Hanson
declares he lives on fifty cents a week.
His suit for damages against the SUI
preme court is unique in the annals
OF Kansas court procedure.
"Buttermilk is my main diet" said
Hanson. II buy it at the creamery
in Lindsborg for five cents a gallon.
Then buy bread-two days old or
more-for half the price <of fresh
bread. These are my chief articles
of diet, representing about thirty cents
other dime week. Then in order
to maintain a balanced ration. I eat
a few potatoes, beans and vegetables
about a dimes worth week. Never
have any meat and seldom pastry"
Is Picture OF Health.
On his fifty cents a week diet Han
son is a picture of health Altho
reached the time yet when he has be-
gun to feel old and occasionally takes
week Off and goes to the country
and does farm work for moderate
fee.''
1T expect to work in the harvest
field some this summer" Hanson said,
unless the supreme court should see
Tit to restore my right to practice
which was denied me five years ago,
after had been an attorney at law
nearly twenty-five years. do a lit
tie office work, but of course am not
permitted to go into court for a
client"
Armed with voluminous documents
he had drawn up, Hanson argued at
length before Judge George H. Whit
comb, in the Shawnee county district
court, recently, demanding that his
$4,000. case be permitted to go to
trial. Some time ago Judge Whit
comb granted a demurrer throwing
the case out of court The recently
argued motion, however, was taken
under a6+4sement. Hanson contends
that the action OF the supreme court
was without precedent. that it viz
tually disbarred him without due pro-
cess of law, and that he has been I'M
reasonably punished maintaining that
legally suspension cannot result from
contempt proceedings
Charged With Contempt.
Asked the cause of the supreme
courts action, Hanson pointed to
paragraph in one of the many manu-
scripts drawn up by himself in the
long list of legal action he has brought
seeking reparation.
II am charged with contempt for
criticizing the court in an argument:
planned. The paragraph, quoting
Hanson's argument, reads Undressing
the court):
I'VE think that the way you dis
pose of this is utterly frivilous; that
in one sense it is only a method to
dodge the real questions. But the
most important trouble is that I fear
that it will make Kansas law ridicu-
lous, not only in Kansas but all over
the United States-that they will give
this the horse laugh all along the
line-this is the limit! Lord protect
us!"
The case at issue before the SUI
preme court was an estate matter
which has been fought bitterly in the
Mcpherson county district and pro-
bate courts for ten years. At one
time Hanson was kept in Jail eight
months because he refused to testify
in the district court, maintaining eff
fort W. being made to ascertain in.
formation of a confidential nature, ir-
relevant to the case.
This case has only got a good
start" assured the fighting lawyer
1T have two more moves. If de-
feated in the district court, of course
I can not take the matter to the |
state supreme court-the defendantsb
in the case. will appeal to the UnitedI
States supreme court. My other novel
is to mandanlu5 the supreme court
and compel it to restore my right tot
practice law"