Flitch v. Boyle

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DawsoN, C. J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to a petition in an action wherein plaintiff sought an adjudication of his alleged partnership rights in certain oil and gas property, the legal title to which is now held by defendant.

Plaintiff’s petition alleged that in 1928 plaintiff and one E. E. Boyle agreed to embark on a joint adventure whose purpose was to *601procure oil and gas leases and royalty interests in Ellis and other western Kansas counties and to hold and later dispose of them at a profit to their mutual advantage.…