Beltz v. Griggs

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This is an action by a landowner against a common-law trust to which he had conveyed an undivided one-half interest in the oil, gas and mineral royalty in a quarter section of land in Ness county, Kansas, and the grantees of the common-law trust, to quiet his title against them, for the reason that the conveyance had been procured from him by misrepresentations and *430fraud and without consideration, and the subsequent conveyances were executed contrary to law and accepted and recorded by the grantees with full knowledge of the fraud and…