Title: Lorey v. Cox
Citation: 175 Kan. 66, 259 P.2d 194
Docket Number: 39,004
State: Kansas
Issuer: Kansas Supreme Court
Date: July 6, 1953

175 Kan. 66 (1953)
259 P.2d 194
CLARENCE LOREY, Appellee,
v.
DOROTHY COX, Appellant.
No. 39,004

Supreme Court of Kansas.
Opinion filed July 6, 1953.
H.W. Goodwin, of Wichita, was on the briefs for the appellant.
Aubrey J. Bradley, Jr., Robert A. Coldsnow, F.C. McMaster, and Kenneth F. Beck, all of Wichita, were on the briefs for the appellee.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
WEDELL, J.:
The defendant appeals from an order overruling her demurrer to a petition. The sole ground of the demurrer was another cause of action was pending between the same parties for the same cause.
In support of appellant's demurrer she offered in evidence the record of another pending action. Appellant states the only issue on appeal is whether the cause of action alleged in the instant petition is the same cause of action set forth in the previously filed and pending case. Appellant is in error. We are not presently concerned with that question. The only question is whether the court erred in overruling her demurrer. The petition to which appellant demurred does not disclose another action was pending for the same cause or, in fact, for any other cause. In order to render the petition demurrable on the ground asserted, or for that matter on any statutory ground, the defect under our code must appear on the face of the petition.
G.S. 1949, 60-705 provides:
The pertinent part of G.S. 1949, 60-707, reads:
In Overlander v. Overlander, 119 Kan. 348, 239 Pac. 751, one ground of the demurrer was the same as that asserted here. This court disposed of the demurrer as follows:
The principle involved was rather fully treated in American Glycerin Co. v. Freeburne, 157 Kan. 22, 138 P.2d 468, in which we held:
In Runnels v. Montgomery Ward &amp; Co., 165 Kan. 571, 195 P.2d 571, we also held:
The order overruling the demurrer is affirmed.