Pittsburg Vitrified Paving & Building Brick Co. v. Cerebus Oil Co.

Citations

• 79 Kan. 603
• 100 P. 631
• 1909 Kan. LEXIS 248

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Contracts—Consideration. Where A owns the gas rights in a tract of land and B owns the oil rights in the same, together with the right to drill and case wells thereon, and B drills, cases and equips a well which proves to be a gas-well of great volume, and A thereafter, with knowledge of the facts, undertakes and agrees to pay B the actual cost of drilling, casing and equipping the well, the contract is supported by a sufficient consideration, and an action may be maintained thereon by B to recover from A such actual cost of drilling, easing and equipping the well.</p>