Kansas Statutes 83-217. Damages owed by person using inaccurate, false or rejected device; variations in weight, measure or quantity
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 83-217
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
Any person who is liable to an injured person by reason of any inaccurate, false or rejected weighing or measuring device shall be assessed and adjudged to pay damages in double the amount of property wrongfully taken or not given, and in addition thereto, for punitive damages the additional sum of $25, and reasonable attorney fees, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction. The selling and delivery of a stated quantity of any commodity shall be prima facie evidence of representations on the part of the vendor that the quantity sold and delivered was the quantity bought by the vendee. A slight variation from the stated weight, measure or quantity, within authorized tolerances, is permissible for individually packaged commodities if such variation is as often over, as it is under, the correct weight, measure or quantity stated.