48 Kan. 667 | Kan. | 1892
Opinion by
This was an action to restrain the city of Dodge City from interfering with and disturbing the plaintiff below in his possession and right to a .certain strip of land in the city limits as a street, which he had inclosed, and which the city authorities attempted to break down. The plaintiff claimed the property under a deed from the Dodge City Town Company. The city alleged that the town-site
The first error assigned is the refusal of the district court to permit the plaintiff to introduce a plat of R. M. Wright’s addition to the city of Dodge City. It is claimed by the plaintiff in error that this was a plat of an addition filed in the office of the register of deeds in 1884 by the plaintiff below, and showed that an addition was platted just east of the city and adjoining the land in controversy; that the streets corresponded to the streets of the original plat. This does not appear in the record. The plat is not made a part of the record, and there is no statement as to what the city proposed to, prove. “Error cannot be predicated upon a ruling excluding testimony, where the evidence desired is not shown in the record, nor any statement made as to what the proposed testimony would be.” (The State v. Barker, 43 Kas. 262.)
It is next urged that the court erred in sustaining an objection to the admission of certain evidence as to the use of the land in controversy. The defendant below expressly disclaimed any intent to prove user for the period of 15 years to establish dedication. There was only one other purpose for which evidence of the use of the property could be introduced; that would be to show acceptance by the city of a dedication by the owner of the land. There was no allega
It is recommended that the judgment of the district court be affirmed.
By the Court: It is so ordered.