Ohio-Kentucky Coal Company v. Auxier

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Dismissing appeal.

This case concerns the ownership and right in and to the oil and gas in a tract of land in Pike county containing 72.6 acres. The appellant and defendant below, Ohio-Kentucky Coal Company, claims title to such mineral rights under a lease that it obtained from the then owners of the land, J. W. Damron and wife, on August 10,1910; or, rather, it insists that under its lease it was given an option to purchase such mineral rights when the owners of the land (its lessors in the lease it obtained of that date), upon which it obtained its…