Wakenva Coal Company, Inc. v. Johnson

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

On June 1, 1912, J. E. Johnson, etc., the owners of a large body of valuable coal land in Perry county, executed to J. T. Moore a coal lease thereon for a term of fifty years, with the privilege of renewal for forty-nine years. The lessee agreed to pay them a royalty of 10 cents a ton on the coal taken. On December 17,1925, this lease passed to the Wakenva Coal Company, which also owned a large number of other tracts and leases in Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. On August 29, 1927, J. E. Johnson, etc., filed an action…