Show A PLAN THAT FAILED kansas oil law failed to stand test of courts topeka kans the law passed by the legislature last winter ing to build an independent oil refinery at peru has been declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court in an opinion rendered by associate justice green the oil refinery law was considered one of the most direct blows struck at the standard CM company by the last legislature which adopted several measures tending to restrict that con cern in the handling of the kansas product the court holds that the construe alon of the refinery and the branch penitentiary in connection with it Is in violation of the state constitution which declares the state shall never be a party in carrying on any works of internal improvement |