Willits v. PEABODY COAL CO., LLC

CLIFFORD H. AHRENS, Judge.

Patricia Willits, William G. Parrott, Jr., and Donald Petrie, Trustee of the PPW Royalty Trust, collectively “Plaintiffs” appeal from the judgment of the trial court denying their motion for partial summary judgment and granting the motions for summary judgment of the Peabody Defendants and the Armstrong Defendants. 1 Finding no error, we affirm.

In 1946, W.G. Parrott, father of William G. Parrott, Jr. and Patricia Willits, conveyed certain lands and mineral rights lo cated within a 6,000-plus acre tract in Ohio County, Kentucky, to the Beaver Dam Coal Company…