Blue Ridge Coal Co. v. Hurst

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Moorman —

Affirming.

On July 15, 1916, the appellees, J. A. Hurst and his wife, Virginia Hurst, leased to W. C. Pitman and John Centers, for a term of fifteen years, a boundary of coal land at the month of Yellow creek, in Bell eonnty, Kentucky, containing about one hundred and ninety acres. By the’ terms of the lease it was provided:

*4331. That the lessees should pay to the lessors, as royalties, fifteen cents a ton, mine run, on all coal taken from the land.

2. That the minimum royalty or rent paid to the lessees should he $150.00 a month, but that any amount thus paid…