Terrill v. Kentucky Block Cannel Coal Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammack

— Affirming.

Iu 1888, Granville Haney, who then owned the 40 acre tract of land now owned by W. J. and Lonas Terrill, the appellants herein, executed a coal lease on the land to a predecessor of the appellee and plaintiff below, Kentucky Block Cannel Coal Company. The lease ran for a period of 999 years and provided for a small down payment with royalties at the rate of $2 per acre to be paid when and as the coal was mined. Haney conveyed the property to J. C. Terrill, the father of the appellants, and in 1905, Terrill and his wife executed a writing to the…