Hoge v. Ky. River Coal Corporation

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson—

Affirming.

Prior to the year 1904 C. B. Slemp, John Mayo, and others had organized five or six coal companies, which were known as the “Slemp Interests,” for the purpose of buying coal lands in eastern Kentucky, and so contracted for and purchased something over 80,000 acres of- such land in Perry, Leslie -and other counties in eastern Kentucky. In 1904 Lucinda Couch and Carr Couch, by written contract, agreed to sell and convey to one of these companies for a stipulated consideration the coal and mineral interest in certain lands owned by them; in…