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Where in a dispute over whether an oil and gas lease terminated for lack of oil production, an oil company filed an inverse condemnation claim against the city after the city denied its applications for a conditional use permit and ...

Tagged with: inverse condemnation Oil and Gas Lease

Where the trial court appointed a guardian ad litem to protect appellant’s interest in ongoing litigation arising from a dispute between appellant as a property owner and respondent, which managed and maintained the subdivision, the judgment is reversed and remanded ...

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Defendants appealed from the adverse judgment entered against them in plaintiffs’ unlawful detainer action, in which plaintiffs alleged they were entitled to possession of farmland they had leased to defendants for defendants’ breach of the lease. Where the defendants surrendered ...

Tagged with: breach of lease Unlawful Detainer Action

Where in a dispute arising from a lease agreement for rental property, the landlord brought an action for rent and possession and later amended the petition to request relief for unlawful detainer, and the tenant raised a counter claim and ...

Tagged with: Current Possession Unlawful Detainer Warranty of Habitability

Where appellants challenged a judgment in favor of respondent on its claim of adverse possession of real property, substantial evidence showed that the respondent established visible acts of ownership over the premises including maintaining and improving the property at the ...

Tagged with: Adverse Possession Continuous Exclusive

Where homeowners challenged a judgment in favor of the Kansas City Area Transit Authority in a dispute involving ownership of real property that the KCATA claimed as part of a right of way it owned in fee simple and that ...

Tagged with: Adverse Possession Public Land Right of Way

Where appellant oil companies sued defendants in a dispute regarding royalty interests in oil and gas leases, the relevant top leases were new leases and were not extensions or renewals of the subject leases, so the overriding royalty interests did ...

Tagged with: Fiduciary duty Oil and Gas Leases Renewal

Defendants appealed from the denial of their claim to reform a warranty deed that granted plaintiffs, defendants’ neighbors, an egress/ingress easement. On appeal, defendants challenged the trial court’s application of the law and the weight of the evidence supporting the ...

Tagged with: Egress/Ingress Easement Weight of the Evidence

Defendant appealed from the denial of his adverse possession claim. Plaintiffs had purchased the disputed property and later sought to fence it off, finding no functional or visible border or fencing. Defendant disputed the property line and clouded the title ...

Tagged with: Adverse Possession Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where a homeowner challenged a judgment against him for violations of city’s property maintenance code by allowing bare dirt in his back yard and keeping chickens closer than 150 feet from his lot line, the homeowner did not suffer any ...

Tagged with: Chicken-Keeping Zoning

Where homeowners challenged the grant of adverse summary judgment in a quiet title and ejectment action, arguing that a genuine issue of material fact existed as to whether the tax lien certificate on their property was sold to a prohibited ...

Tagged with: Ejectment Prohibited Purchaser Quiet Title