Leon v. Barnsdall Zinc Co.

This appeal comes here on certification by the Springfield Court of Appeals. The action in form is one for damages for breach of contract. The subject-matter of the contract declared1 upon was the assignment and transfer of a certain contract for a mining lease theretofore, entered into between the plaintiffs, Leons, and Laura Greer, et al., the owners of 400 acres of land in Cherokee County, Kansas. The material portions of the latter contract, which will be herein referred to as the Greer contract, were as follows: ‘ ‘ That the first parties (Laura Greer et al.) do hereby give and grant to…