MATZEN v. CITIES SERVICE OIL CO.

No. 54,534

233 Kan. 846 (1983)

667 P.2d 337

CARL F. MATZEN, et al., Appellees/Cross-Appellants, v. CITIES SERVICE OIL COMPANY and CITIES SERVICE COMPANY, et al., Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed July 15, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Roth, of Hershberger, Patterson, Jones & Roth, of Wichita; Gerald Sawatzky, of Foulston, Siefkin, Powers & Eberhardt, of Wichita; and Glenn D. Young, Jr., of Gott, Young & Bogle, of Wichita, argued the cause; Robert F. LeBlanc, of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Robert G. Sachse, of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Paul N. Kiel, of Atlanta, Georgia; John E. Robertson, of Denver, Colorado; Richard Jones, of Hershberger, Patterson, Jones & Roth, of Wichita; R.H. Landt, of Denver, Colorado; Albert D. Hoppe, of Dallas, Texas; Douglas C. Brandon, of Ashland, Kentucky; and R. Douglas Reagan, of Foulston, Siefkin, Powers & Eberhardt, of Wichita, were with them on the briefs for appellants/cross-appellees.

Gerrit H. Wormhoudt, of Wichita, argued the cause, and Gregory J. Stucky, of Wichita, Bernard E. Nordling and Leland E. Nordling, of Kramer, Nordling, Nordling & Tate, of Hugoton; Gary R. Hathaway, of Hathaway & Kimball, of Ulysses; and the firm of Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, of Wichita, were with him on the briefs for appellees/cross-appellants.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

MILLER, J.:

This is an interlocutory appeal by the defendants in sixteen consolidated class action natural gas royalty cases. The plaintiffs are natural gas royalty owners in Grant, Haskell, Seward and Stevens Counties, and the individual cases were filed in the district courts of those counties, all of which are in the Twenty-sixth Judicial District. The defendants are gas producers who produce and market natural...

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