Kycoga Land Co. v. Kentucky River Coal Corporation

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The controversy culminating in these appeals was brought to the attention of the court below by the bill of the appellant to have its title quieted to the minerals lying under a tract of approximately 100 acres, in Knott County, Kentucky. The lands having been incorporated by metes and bounds description in a lease from the appellee to the Knott Coal Corporation engaged in mining coal over a large area covered by the lease, and the operations having been extended to some 7% acres of the land claimed by the appellant, it prayed, in its bill, for an accounting in respect…