Kipling v. City of White Plains

OPINION

GUIDUGLI, Judge.

Earl C. Kipling and Mary Kipling (the Kiplings) appeal from various orders of the Hopkins Circuit Court which granted an easement across their farm to the City of White Plains (the City) for the purpose of installing a water line. We affirm.

Due to the adverse effects of strip mining operations in Southern Hopkins County some twenty years ago, nineteen households in the Mount Carmel area of the *778county lost their water supply. The Kentucky Division of Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) studied the situation and set aside $350,000 in funds to replace the water supply to these…