Howell v. Bach

WILHOIT, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Breathitt Circuit Court granting a summary judgment to the individual appellees on their claim of entitlement to share in royalties paid to their cotenants, appellants Tre-va and Jeff Howell, under the terms of an agreement made by the Howells without the knowledge of these appellees. We affirm.

The Howells and the individual appellees are the joint owners of certain mineral rights which are presently leased from them by appellee Falcon Coal Company. In 1966 all of the then-co-owners of the mineral rights joined in a written lease of the…