Opinion ID: 2264739
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Heading Rank: 12

Heading: Cross-petitioner

Text: Lester, Jr., filed the cross-petition which requested a partition of the entire interest in the subject tract without excepting or reserving any minerals interest. See Central Natural Resources v. Davis Operating Co., 288 Kan. 234, 242, 201 P.3d 680 (2009) (all minerals belong to the landowner and are considered part of the realty so long as they reside on, in, or under the land). The district court's sale confirmation order gave the cross-petitioner the relief that he requested, a purported sale of the entire tract. Then, because the cross-petition inaccurately described Lester, Jr.'s, ownership interest as including the 80% of the minerals in which he did not have an interest, he theoretically received more compensation for his partitioned interest than he was entitled, if one assumes that part of the sheriff's sale proceeds are allocable to the mineral estate. While Lester, Jr., might now be experiencing seller's remorse because of the current value of the mineral interest, he has no basis to assert that the nonjoinder of other mineral interest owners in the partition action, for which he was solely responsible, violated his right to due process or adversely affected his property interest. The partition judgment is valid as to him.