Wescott v. Bailey

Citations

• 109 Kan. 163
• 198 P. 189
• 1921 Kan. LEXIS 97

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE’ COURT.</p> <p>Oil and Gas Lease — Land Subdivided Into Forty-acre Units — Cancellation of Lease on Each Separate Unit. An oil and. gas lease given for a maximum term of twenty years construed, and it is held that under its terms the leased land was subdivided into forty-acre units, rental to be paid on each unit unless the lessee had a producing well on such unit, and in case no rent was paid and there was no producing well'on the unit, the lease on so much of the land was to become void. There being no producing' well on the land owned by the plaintiff and no rent having been paid, the court rightly cancelled the lease as to that unit although the maximum period of the lease on the whole tract had not yet expired.</p>