Ray v. Miller

Citations

• 78 Kan. 843
• 98 P. 239
• 1908 Kan. LEXIS 154

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Office and Officers — Appointment—Veteran’s Preference Law. Charges of fraud, bad faith and disregard.of law in denying an application for appointment to an office under the veteran’s preference law must-be proved by evidence of facts which are inconsistent with official probity. The inquiry starts with the presumption that public officers do their duty, that they act ■ fairly, from good motives, and with the purpose and intention of obeying the law. Suspicion, surmise, insinuation and innuendo are not enough to overthrow this presumption.</p>