Shoemake v. Davis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action to enforce an oral contract concerning the acquisition of an oil and gas lease and for an accounting pertaining thereto.

*910Plaintiff, a resident of Wichita, was engaged in securing oil and gas leases and disposing of them for a profit. He had several years’ experience in that business, in the pursuit of which he had become conversant with the development and prospective development of the oil and gas industry in central Kansas and kept tab on the expiration and cancellation of oil and gas leases thereabout.

Defendant, also…