First National Bank & Trust Co. v. Sidwell Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Holmes, J.:

The defendants appeal from a decision rendered in a trial to the court wherein a constructive trust in favor of the plaintiffs was imposed upon a portion of defendants’ interests in four oil and gas leases. Plaintiffs claimed their interests by virtue of an agreement entered into between plaintiff, I. Wayne Woolsey (hereinafter Woolsey) and defendant David D. Read, Jr. The appeal was transferred from the Court of Appeals pursuant to K.S.A. 20-3018(c). We affirm the judgment of the trial court in all respects.

Plaintiff Woolsey, a petroleum…