Snider v. Davidson

Citations

• 105 Kan. 661
• 185 P. 724
• 1919 Kan. LEXIS 150

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. General Partnership — Procuring and Developing Oil and Gas Leases. The facts established by the findings are held to show the existence of a general partnership, the purpose of which was to secure a block of oil and gas leases, and to drill a test well to develop the field and enable the partnership to dispose of the leases.</p> <p>2. Same — No Abandonment of the Enterprise — Not a Mining Partnership. In such a situation, where the test well produced only a small amount of gas, the mere abandonment of the well is held not to haye been an abandonment of the general enterprise, and, therefore, a finding that the partnership was a mining partnership was error.</p>