Edmonston v. Home Stake Oil & Gas Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Holmes, J.:

This case is before the Kansas Supreme Court on a certified question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, K.S.A. 60-3201 et seq. The question as presented by the certifying court is:

“When a term mineral interest in several tracts has been conveyed by a single instrument and one of those tracts has been unitized under the Kansas Compulsory Unitization Act, Kan. Stat. Ann. 55-1301 et seq., is the entire mineral interest *377extended by the unitized production…