COLEMAN v. REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION


280 S.W.2d 171 (1955)

J. M. COLEMAN et al., Appellant, v. REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION, Appellee. and REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Julian SANDERS et al., Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

May 27, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hobson & Scott, Pikeville, for Republic Steel Corporation.

Francis M. Burke, Pikeville, for J. M. Coleman, and others.

F. M. Burke, Henry D. Stratton, Pikeville, for Julian Sanders, and others.


MOREMEN, Judge.

These two cases, consolidated by order of the lower court, contest the title to the minerals on a tract of land in Pike County, more particularly located on the Big Right Hand Fork of Harless Creek.

A summary of the history of the ownership of this tract may aid in the decision of both cases.

In 1880, John Coleman owned practically all the land on the left ascending side of Harless Creek...

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