BUTLER COAL, INC. v. COMMONWEALTH, DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS


412 S.W.2d 235 (1967)

BUTLER COAL, INC. and Williams Brothers Stripping Corporation, Appellants, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 3, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry J. Potter, Jr., Bowling Green, for appellants.

Robert Matthews, Atty. Gen., H. C. Smith and C. E. Skidmore, Dept. of Highways, Frankfort, for appellee.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Department of Highways, obtained from a landowner, for highway purposes, a deed in fee simple to a tract of 50 acres. This tract was part of a larger acreage on which there was an outstanding mineral lease in favor of Butler Coal, Inc. However, the lease had not been worked and was being kept alive only by delay rental payments on an annual renewal date of May 23.

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