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- Title: Head v. Platte County
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 15, 1988
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by Plaintiff, Phyllis Head, a Kansas resident, filed a personal
injury action against Platte County, Missouri, and Tom Thomas,
Sheriff of Platte County, alleging negligence in the the arrest
and false imprisonment of the plaintiff in Kansas. Specifically,
plaintiff alleged that employees of Platte County negligently
prepared the arrest warrant in Missouri. The Kansas district
court, applying Missouri sovereign immunity law, granted
defendants' motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff appeals. We
reverse and remand for further proceedings, determining that when
agents of a sister state or its subdivision enter this state,
neither the public policy of Kansas nor principles of judicial
comity require us to recognize the sister state's attributes of
sovereign immunity. State v. Holcomb, 85 Kan. 178, 116 P. 251
(1911). Plaintiff is a resident of Overland Park, Kansas. Platte
County, Missouri, is a political subdivision of the State of
Missouri. Tom Thomas, Sheriff of Platte County, is a resident of
Platte County, Missouri.