Geiger v. Wallace

The opinion of the court was delivered by This case arose out of a landlord-tenant dispute in which the landowner defendant, Heinz C. Wallace, without compliance with statutory notice requirements and during the tenant's absence from the premises, nailed shut the door to the tenant's house and cut off the electricity. The tenant, Claude Geiger, sued the landlord for actual and punitive damages and received a judgment from the trial court sitting without a jury in the amount of $1,168 actual damages and $1,000 punitive damages. The landlord appealed. The only evidence presented in the case was the testimony of plaintiff, Claude Geiger, and of defendant, Heinz C. Wallace. At the end of the trial, the matter was taken under advisement and [233 Kan. 657]