[DOWNLOAD] "State Ex Rel. Murray v. Palmgren" by Supreme Court of Kansas # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State Ex Rel. Murray v. Palmgren
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 11, 1982
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an action by the State of Kansas, ex rel., Perry Murray, Thomas County attorney and Robert T. Stephan, attorney general, to recover civil penalties under K.S.A. 75-4320(a) from the appellants, former county commissioners and hospital trustees in Thomas County, for violation of the Kansas Open Meetings Act (KOMA). K.S.A. 75-4317 et seq. This case is the continuation of an intense and bitter controversy over the proposed construction of a new hospital in Thomas County. The dispute is familiar to this court. Decisions in Pratt v. Board of Thomas County Comm'rs, 226 Kan. 333, 597 P.2d 664 (1979), and Thomas County Taxpayers Ass'n v. Finney, 223 Kan. 434, 573 P.2d 1073 (1978), set aside two county bond elections for hospital construction because of legal irregularities and effectively halted construction of a tax-supported hospital in Thomas County. Following the last decision, a group of Thomas County residents gave up the quest for a tax-supported hospital and began searching for an alternate method of providing medical care for the county. They formed a non-profit corporation and launched a fund drive for the building of a private non-profit hospital. During this time Harold Palmgren, William Randall and John Renner made up the Board of County Commissioners. Samuel Friesen, Eugene Karlin, Woodrow Kemp, Marilyn Rall, [231 Kan. 526]