C.W. Hoskins Heirs v. Boggs

Opinion of the Court by

Justice SCOTT.

This was an action to quiet title to a 155 acre tract of coal (the disputed tract) in Leslie County, Kentucky. The action started as an interpleader action filed by the coal company mining the coal, Bledsoe Coal Leasing Company (Bledsoe) against its own competing claimants/Lessors, Appellant, C.W. Hoskins Heirs, a non-resident partnership (Hoskins Heirs) and Ap-pellees, the Boggs Heirs (Boggs Heirs). The Hoskins Heirs thereafter filed a counterclaim against Bledsoe for mining royalties it had paid to the Boggs Heirs for coal mined from the disputed tract…