Kansas Private Club Assn. v. Londerholm

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• holding that K.S.A. 60-223, which parallels Fed.R.Civ.P. 23, does not “create legal entities out of voluntary, unincorporated associations” or “serve as an enabling act permitting such associations to bring actions in their own name as parties plaintiff’
• in every cause of action there must be a plaintiff which is either a natural or an artificial person having a legal entity, and individuals and corporations are our only strictly legal entities in the absence of qualifying statutes
• in every cause of action there must be a plaintiff which is either a natural or an artificial person having a legal entity, and individuals and corporations are our only strictly legal entities in the absence of qualifying statutes
• “It is the general rule to which this jurisdiction has long adhered, that in the absence of a statute to the contrary, an unincorporated association is not a legal entity and can neither sue nor be sued in the name of the association.”

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