JUNCTION CITY — A Junction City woman appealed her $55 parking ticket all the way to the Kansas Court of Appeals — and won. The Wichita Eagle repored Mary Somrak fought the ticket through three courts and almost two years. Somrak said she got the ticket for parking over the line in her parking space at a town-home complex. She said she appealed because she didn’t think it was right for the city to write tickets in a private parking lot at 2 a.m. — especially when the car she parked too close to was her second car. Somrak said her neighbors got similar tickets and many of them are military dependents. Local courts said she didn’t file her appeal notice in time, but the appeals court ruled she did.
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 3 p.m.
