Elkhorn Star Coal Company v. Hall

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming.

Appellees are the owners of a valuable tract of coal land in Floyd county. On August 14, 1917, in consideration of $100 paid) in cash, they leased it to Thomas B.) Powell, from whom the lease passed by proper conveyance to the King Elkhorn Coal Company, which operated the lease until January 19, 1920, when the Elkhorn Star Coal Company purchased it, and that company operated it until this suit was brought in the spring of Í925 by appellees to recover an alleged balance due them on the royalty reserved in the lease. The lease contained the…