O. K. Jellico Coal Co. v. Parks

*675Opinion of the Court by

Judge Lassing

Reversing.

I». L. Parks and Ms wife are, and were prior to 1902, the owners of a farm in Laurel County, Kentucky, upon which there is a coal mine. They gave a lease to one Eldridge upon one hundred and fifty acres of this land, and through his efforts a company was organized in the fall of 1902, known as the O. K. Coal & Coking Co., for the purpose of developing the property upon which he held the lease. The lease was assigned to this newly organized company, and it commenced business with Eldridge as manager. It appears that, before he procured the lease,…