The interlocutory appeals were consolidated. No one appealed the district court's ruling granting summary judgment in KDWPT's favor.In a published decision, a Court of Appeals panel affirmed in part and reversed in part. See Patterson v. Cowley County, Kansas , 53 Kan.App. 2d 442, 388 P.3d 923 (2017). The panel agreed with the district court's conclusion that the Township did not owe a duty with respect to traffic-control devices or warning signs.
See Poston, 286 Kan. at 815-16, 189 P.3d 517; Wilson, 273 Kan. at 589, 44 P.3d 454. Zaragoza also relies on Patterson v. Cowley County, Kansas, 53 Kan. App. 2d 442, 471, 388 P.3d 923 (2017), aff'd 307 Kan. 616, 413 P.3d 432 (2018). There, two people drowned in a river after driving off an unpaved road that ran through a wildlife preserve before abruptly ending at a riverbank.