Connell v. Kanwa Oil Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.:

This was an action for the specific performance of an alleged written agreement for the sale of an undivided three-fourths interest in an overriding royalty interest of one-eighth of eight-eighths of all oil, gas and casinghead gas, produced, saved *650and sold, from a certain oil producing tract of real estate located in Russell county, Kansas, in which the plaintiff, a resident'of Butler county, sought to obtain service by publication in the district court of Russell county on the defendant, a foreign corporation and the owner of such royalty…