Vanderpool's Guardian v. Louisville Gas & Electric Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Hobson, Commissioner

Affirming.

Dorcas Vanderpool owned 50 acres of land in Magoffin county and died leaving four infant children surviving her. On January 13, 1922, her husband, J. B. Vanderpool, as guardian for the infant children, executed an oil and gas lease to J. Fred Reed and filed a proceeding in the Magoffin circuit court to obtain the court’s approval of the lease under section 2031a-3r Kentucky Statutes. Two copies of the proposed lease were filed with the petition; one copy being attached, to the petition and the other not attached to it, jiossibly in order…