ANDERSON v. UNITED FUEL GAS COMPANY


351 S.W.2d 520 (1961)

Dewey ANDERSON et al., Appellants, v. UNITED FUEL GAS COMPANY et al., Appellees. Bernard HENSLEY et al., Appellants, v. Dewey ANDERSON et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

November 22, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grannis Bach, Jackson, J. K. Wells, Paintsville, H. Raymond Andrews, Jr., Charleston, W. Va., for Dewey Anderson, et al.

H. Raymond Andrews, Jr. and William Roy Rice, Charleston, W. Va., J. K. Wells, Paintsville, for United Fuel Gas Co., et al.

Henry L. Spencer, Jackson, for Bernard Hensley.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

On the appeal of Dewey Anderson, et al., the question is whether the circuit court correctly adjudged that an oil and gas lease held by the appellees covers two tracts of land for which Anderson held unrecorded deeds at the time the lease was executed by Anderson's grantors and their brothers and sisters, and that the lessees were bona fide purchasers for value so that the lease prevails over Anderson's unrecorded deeds.

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