Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Park

Citations

• 66 Kan. 248
• 71 P. 586
• 1903 Kan. LEXIS 35

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Statutory Construction — Railroad Contracts — Invalid Act. When a legislative act, by' certain of its sections, creates a board or other tribunal, and in a separate section provides that contracts in themselves lawful shall not thereafter be made unless permitted by order of such board, and thereafter another tribunal is created in lieu of such board, and the sections which created the board are expressly repealed and the board abolished, but the section requiring an order from the board as a condition precedent to the making of such contracts is not repealed, such section, being'dependent upon the main provisions of the act, becomes, by implication, inoperative and void.</p>