Howard v. Kingmont Oil Co.

WILHOIT, Judge.

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from a judgment of the McCreary Circuit Court setting the boundary line of property owned by Elmon King and leased to the appellee, Kingmont Oil Company, and awarding damages to the appellant for drilling encroachments by the appellee Kingmont Oil Company.

The appellant first argues that the trial court erred in establishing the boundary of the property owned by Elmon King because it relied upon the testimony of the appellee’s surveyor rather than the appellant’s surveyor who, according to the appellant, was an “obviously more experienced and…