2006 Kansas Code - 47-638

      47-638.   Liability for damages from such disease. Any person or persons who shall drive, ship, or transport, or cause to be driven, shipped, or transported, into or through any county in this state, any cattle liable to or capable of communicating Texas, splenic or Spanish fever to any domestic cattle of this state, shall be liable to any person or persons injured thereby for all damages that they may sustain by reason of the communication of said diseases of Texas, splenic or Spanish fever, to be recovered in a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction, and the parties so injured shall have a lien for such damages on the cattle communicating the disease of Texas, splenic or Spanish fever.

      History:   L. 1885, ch. 191, § 4; L. 1891, ch. 201, § 3; L. 1901, ch. 101, § 3; March 15; R.S. 1923, 47-638.