CANEY CREEK COAL COMPANY v. ELLIS


437 S.W.2d 745 (1969)

CANEY CREEK COAL COMPANY, Appellant, v. T. H. ELLIS and M. J. Brown, dba Ellis & Brown Coal Company, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

January 24, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Donan, Donan & Vick, Greenville, for appellant.

William G. Fuqua, Russellville, for appellees.


DAVIS, Commissioner.

The appellees, Ellis and Brown, as plaintiffs, obtained a verdict and judgment of $45,000 against the appellant, Caney Creek Coal Company, as damages for claimed loss of equipment and material and loss of profits said to have occurred when the appellant company strip mined the No. 11 and No. 12 veins of coal overlying the No. 9 vein of coal upon which appellees held a mining lease. Caney Creek asserts that (1) it was not negligent and was entitled...

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