Stratmann v. Stratmann

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fromme, J.:

This appeal is from a judgment quieting plaintiffs’ title to eighty acres of land in Ellsworth county, Kansas. The defendant claims an interest in the minerals. The case was submitted to the trial court on the pleadings. The parties stipulated a judgment should be entered by the court based upon its construction of a reservation of oil and gas by cotenants in a prior partition action.

In the petition plaintiffs allege ownership of fee simple title to the West Half of the Northwest Quarter (W/2NW/4) of Section One (1), Township Seventeen (17)…