Harris v. United States Mexico Oil Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

On April 9, 1920, T. W. Harris brought an action in the district court of Bourbon county against a defendant described as United States Mexico Oil Company, a corporation, asking judgment for $2,999 claimed to be due him under a written contract with such defendant executed May 24, 1918, for the drilling of three wells, one north and two south of the .Osage river, in Bourbon *533county. An attachment was issued and levied and service was made by publication under allegations that the defendant was a foreign corporation and a nonresident of Kansas.…