Buffalo Valley Oil & Gas Co. v. Jones
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Wilson district court; Leander Still-well, judge. STATEMENT. Prior to and since February 1, 1902, the defendants in error were the owners of about 200 acres of land lying in one body near the town of Buffalo, in Wilson county. This property was within the oil-and-gas belt of that county, which was then being actively developed.
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Error from Wilson district court; Leander Still-well, judge. STATEMENT. Prior to and since February 1, 1902, the defendants in error were the owners of about 200 acres of land lying in one body near the town of Buffalo, in Wilson county. This property was within the oil-and-gas belt of that county, which was then being actively developed. On the first day of February, 1902, the defendants in error executed a gas-and-oil lease on their premises to one Neils Esperson, which with the consent of the lessors was assigned, and March 15, 1904, the plaintiff in error became the owner and holder…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Graves, J.:
It is claimed that the district court erred in overruling the demurrer to the petition, and also in finding for the plaintiffs upon the trial. The petition contained averments of fact-as to the conditions of the lease not in the written instrument, which would be admitted by a demurrer but could not be proved if proper objections were made to the evidence when offered. Many of these allegations were not established at the trial, and therefore the petition may be said to present a stronger case for the plaintiffs than is shown by the…
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