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WALTER S.H.AR.K£S ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW
JOSEPH 13' HARKINS PRESTONSBURG, KY.
Feb. 25, 1922.
Miss Sana Monday, D. (3..
Catle tteburg, Ky.
Dear Miss Mon day: -
I beg to thank you for copy of order of Judge Cochran
of "February 21, in case of Keystone Gas Company v. Kentucky
Coke Company.
Will you pleasg, advise me whether or not the official
stenographer has as yet filed. his Lranecriptoi‘ the testimony
heard befo re Judge Cochran on January 2.
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CHIEF ATTORNEY
k LOUISVILLE GAS AND ELECTRIC CO.
INTER-SOUTHERN BUILDING
LOUISVILLE, KY.
March 9—1922.

Mr. Joseph D. Harkins, Attorney,

Prestonsburg, .

Kentucky.

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My dear Mr. Harkins:

I have received your letter enclosing copies
of the deeds from Hayes to.the Beaver Creek Coal & Coke Com—
pany, and the deed from Hayes to Hoover.

The one hundred acres in dispute in our case
is, I assume, embraced in Tract No. 10, referred to in the deed
from Hayes and wife to the Beaver Creek Coal & Coke Company, of
November 1, 1905.

Has the transcript of the testimony heard at
the trial been yet filed in the case by the stenographer? Have
you had any report from the Court as to the motion to extend the
time for filing brief for fifteen or twenty days after the tran-
script dzall have been filed?

Kindly let me hem~ from you.

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Juflfie Matt O'Doherty, V
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Dear Mr. O'therty:~
Yfiux letter of the 9th, relative to the case
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CATLETTSBURG. KY.
1922.
April 25th.
Mr. ”. b. Harkins,
Attorney at Low, .
Prestonsburg,hy.
My Dear Sir:
Keystone Gas Co.vs. Kentucky Coke Company.

I have signed and delivered to the Clerk the stip-
ulation whereby you are given two weeks from this date in which
to file brief.

Yours very truly,
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. (HHEF ATTORNEY
LOUISVILLE GAS AND ELECTRIC CO.
INTER-SOUTHERN BUILDING
LOUISVILLE, KY.
’ May 5, 1922.
l Mb. Joseph D. Harkins, Attorney, ‘ V
Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
Dear Mr. Harkins:
RE} Keystone Gas Company vs Kentucky Coke Co.
I have prepared a brief in the case of Keystone
Gas Company vs Kentucky Coke Company, copy of which I send you.
I have focwarded the original to the Clerk's office at Cattlets—
burg in order to have it filed within the time.

‘ I intended to have the brief printed,end will d3 so,
and will change its arrangement somewhat. The printed copies
will be ready in about a week.

Hoover, as you will recall, testified that he had made
' a lease of the oil and gas to some company along in 1911 or 1912,
and before making the deed to Dudley. He did not seem to know
whether the lease had been put on record or not. If there is
such a deed on record it would be of vast importance to us to get
(’ .
it. I wish you would look and see if there is.
I hope you will have your brief finished by this time.
I will be glad to have any suggestions you have to offer thatl
may add to my brief.
Let me hear from you.
V Very truly yours,
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Kentucky Coke Company, De'f‘e‘”‘dant'
, Matt O'Doherty, , '
. May 5, 1922. Counsel for Defendant.
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3? the illiterate. U . . P
QR??? lift eta-r, Ti?‘f‘z’3‘l)’¥7?‘€i Sec . 501 i .
{Greenleaf on Evidence, Sec, 569 a) .
e {Jenes on Evidence Vol 3 Sec. 527)
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. Dfiiivery of Dead not shown. ' V 7
Delivery ia‘a nuastion of fact. .
’ j (gigs. of Evirgmce, v31. 4- p. 259)
{bunnell vs: ziuzmzill, 23 :.LJ-‘i. 805.
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Sign if icant 6‘ 12m :.:metances .
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\ ‘ Plaintiff’s chaiu‘brgken. -
—Mnst fail even if Eerunaant hac n0 title.
Foyep 93 Attgrney from George H. Dimfick relied upon in ‘
1 chain insufficient and papa? puvporting is be copy of will invalid.“ i
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I . injunctian proceedings cannot be emplcyed to determine .
title. Where thefie is centravcrsy, especially wharc tie defendant
is in posseflsion of the property, eQuity will not interfere by
injunctign. The party's remedy at law in complete and adeQuate.
- _ _ 7 (High on Injunctions, Sec. 732.)
- _(Preston'VB Smith, 26 F. 3., 2384.)
7 - (Sugar: an Co. vs Benedict, 2:50 arse 481.) A
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AVerments_of 3111 show that DefCidant is in possession v
of the Leasehold. , ' ,
/ Plaintiff, who is not in possession, cannot maintain
~ the action'to quiet title against the defendant who is in pes-
sessicn. . I
' (Kentucky Statutesy Section 11.)
l ' ’ (Herr Vs lErtin, 90 Ky. 377.)
(Packard vs Boone Land Co. 96 K . 249)
. (Eversole Vs Virginia Iron Co. IEZ Ky. 652)
Louisa HooVer's right to the gas and rOyalties is in« I
" valved in this case. ski is a necessary party defendant.
* » _ _ .1 t (on 113.10 5, _.....l..-) ' ‘
‘ The gill dzould be dismissed , _' Ki 1 _ »
. Plaintiff has an adeQuate remedy at law and the defendant
I has the right to have the question of title deterninsd by a jury. .h
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_ DATES. , ‘
' For the convenience of the Court in considering ‘
' briefs in this case.
Hays &c ) ,
(I) to 3 Deed Nov. 1, 1905
) Deod‘Book 15-1/2 page 43. 1
Beaver Creek Coal ) ‘
Hays e Co. ) ' V
(2) t % Deed Book 55, page 152
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' , ) April 15, lglli
Louisa Hoover, ) .
’ Hoovers (lease)cf~» ) '
oil and gas)) _
(5) to - g 1911 or 1912. ‘
a company: ) .
Hoovers ) I
(4) to _ , ; Deed Book 40; page en, . -
, ) August lo, 1913.
Daisy Dudley )
Dudley ; ’ ’
(5) to '3 Jany. 2, 1915. \
I Dimick, Jrg, ) ,
G.H.Dimick, Jr., in '
(e) to ‘ 3 ”Jany. o, 1915. ,
7 ‘ S.H.Dimick, ) -. '
. Sr. b
5; G.H.Dimick )1 . V \
- (7) to g ' Power of Attorney ,
G.H.D1m1ck and 7 ) ” Jan?“ 28’ 1914‘ I '
Tom Uimick, ; _

 , page a DATES. (Continued) '
G.}h Dimickifir )
Attys) V
(8) to g Feb. 1, 1917
" ‘ Keystone S & G C3 3 '
W Hanvers 3 '
. ) Alleget Deed of Carrection,
(9) t0 )
) April 20, 1921.
Dudley, }
(Cnrrection Deed was lodged Tbr record
rmy 2, 1921. D¢“d wak, ea, page 155.)
v Melvin Hocver and 3
L1: :3 1:35; liq-31%)." , J API’ 11 23, 192.7. ,
- > Recarded may 2, 1921,
(10) to } Deed Bank 58, page 158
A . )
’ Da 13v D115? 197:5. )
‘ " !Alleged confirmatory deed.)
’ Melvin Hoover and ) \
Louisa Hoover, ) ‘ ,
) Deed Bdok 58, page 257,
(1;) to ) Date Jun: 3, 1?:1, .
, ‘ ) Recorded August 1", 1021. ~
" Daisy Dudley, ) . _
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‘ Keystone Gas Company, — PIE Emit-1.3“? .
VS" vex—as Bifilfi? F03 IETWZEIEA 3‘1”)” . "viii? I ,
Kentucky anp Company, 4 Defindant. ,
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\ ~ We need mat, we are quite SUTC; remini the Chart
that in the cansiéeratian 9f any ease, or its fli;cussinn, whether ‘ '
, by counsel or by the Court, it is~of first impertance ta bear in
. miné just what the precisé nature ii the case is as presented by
the pleafiings 0f the parties, and the particular issue or issuea
of fact 3? 3f ;aw arising thercan. It is the case which tha parties I
have presented by their pleadinga, §Q§_§ggg g;hgg,that the Ccurt will try.
vwhe rula, a famiiiar.onez 13"3911 rtated by the United
Staies Supreme Gaurt in a case befnrfi it in many hf its features not~
' unlike that here presented:
.k “A party is not allowed to state one afisc in a’
v bill or answer ané make out a different cne by
\ ppggf,‘ The alfegata anfi pr0?ata must agree,-
the latter must support the former." ', '
. (Boone vs (miles, 10 Peter (”.3.) 177).
/ (NEWfian P. a 9., Sec. 215o3/ ,
> - Wifih this simpla but indisputable proposition in
. mind gut a great fioal of what learned csuhnel for the plaintiff in ‘
~ ‘ v this case héfie so a;tfully presen}ed in their bfief will, we think;
» be found t0 be wholly irrelevant. . A
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as we can in disposing of the case before it in accordance with
the law as we understand it, we will first ask the Court to con-
sider just what the issues presented by the record before it are.
‘ The plaintiff asserts title to the oil and gas in a
4 certain tract of 105 acres of land in Floyd County, Kentucky, to
which the defendani makes a like claim. ~ _
' According to the averments of the petition, under color
of title, the defendant "had entered upon the propertp aforesaid
w;th drilling moonines, tools and appliances for the purpose of ‘
_fi‘ - drilling fur oil and gas on said land kc" before this suit was in— 1
L stitutod, and the defendant was, therefore, at the institution of
the suit in the actual possession of the property in dispute.
Just what effect those conceded facts have on the rights
of the parties in this proceeding we will hereafter ask the Court
to consider. _
The plaintiff traces in its petition its claim of title .
. and that of the defendant back to a common grantor, one Molvin
Hoover. - '
Plaintiff's titlo, according to the averments of the
: petition, comes to it from Hoover through Daisy Dudley and Ballard
Dudley, hio immediate grantees. We quote from the petition: .
"Their (Dudleys‘) title to the land * c r %
wao derived through sale to them by one Melvin Hoover
and Louisa Hoover, his wife, by deed dated Aug. 16, 1913,
recorded L.B. 40 page 42 of the records of the office
of the Clerk of Floyd County Court." -
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3' the controversy chiefly hinges. The plaintiff charges in its
2 petition .
(1) That "by a mistake of the draftsman of the dead from
' Melvin Hoover and wife to Delay Dudley a clause was ;
written therein following the description of the land ,
in words substantially as follOWS:
- - 'Excluding the all the minerals on said land,‘
‘ that it was not intended by the parties to the said deed
- to exclude the minerals as all of same werc sold and by
. the deed aforesaid it was intended to conVey same to the
‘ » an id Daisy; Dudley." 3
(2) )l‘hat thereafter, on April 20,‘ 1921, Hoover and his wife
' executed and delivered I ' -
"to Daisy Dudley and this plaintiff * a c is ’ ‘
conveyed and confirmed to Daisy Dudley the title to
3 ghfi Land aforesaid including the oil, gas and mineral
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' , and thet said deed was executed for the purpose of correcting «
cold error &o."" - .
- In View, therefore, of the-avermente of the petition
to the effect that the'words "Excluding all the minerals in said
land" in the deed to Daisy Dudley were inserted therein by mistake
of the draftsmfih, and of the further averment of the petition that ‘
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the later alleged dead from Hoover and wife to Daisy Dudley of
April 20, 1921, was made to correct the alleged error; there 15,
1g submit no foundation wlnteogg in the Eleadings for the/219a now
. advanced in_bricf g:_learned Counsel, that the words "Excluding the
' all the minerals in said land" had any other meaning than they
plainly import, or other meaning that the plaintiff, the Hoovcrs, .
the Dudleys and the Dimicks, as well as the defendant attached to -
. \/ / them, not alone by preparing and endeavoring; as the record shows; .
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. . by naked falsehggd t3 have the Hoovers egecuto a deed of correc-° V
-. -"tidn, but by the express allegation in the petition that {he r
' ' Clause complained of was inserted in the deed to Daisy Dudley ,
‘ , by mistake of the.draftsnsn of that instrument: ' f ‘_ ‘
7 ‘2 W ' \ The issue tendered by plaintiff's bill was not that h;
tic words "Excluding the,all the minerals” did not embrace or - ,1
-; ache not understood to cobrace as they certainly do in their
> litemalsensen and when used without limitation, the oil and gas~ ‘7
A I but that the words whose moaning was not open‘to question even ’ I I
‘V _ by the plaintiff, were written into the deed to Baisy Dudley by' _
I ' mistake‘of the draftsmen,; and that the alleged error was sorrected I ‘
, y ‘ by a subsequent deed fnnm hoover and his wife to her » V ,‘
A. ,,y/ 1' it is noedlenu to say that there was no mistake made ‘
\ _ in\th? deefi to fiaisey Fudley and there was no error to be corrected
I - ii? the clause "Excluding the all the minerald'had the meaning, -
l‘ ' which learned Counsel in their brief Would now give it. i
f i I 7 We must assume therefore téat the Court would have ’
‘ as hnief the case on the issues Bade by the pleadingsrin the ' ’
0 case and till consider the evidence offered by the panties only I _
. ’ as it bears on those issues. ‘ ‘ ‘ _
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h , ‘,’, fpgm’hoover and wife to Daisey Budley, the burden is on the plaintiff I,
I ' ‘lto establish the fact as ails-god,i Hoover and_hie wife are entitled.
‘ *to at least as much credit as Endley and his wife; _’ ‘- ,
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'- The testimony of the Hoovers is clear and direct.
4 Melvin Hoover testified: '
_ "I just sold himvthe dirt". (Record page 54). ’«,
_ ' "I paid $600. for' it in 1911.
Sold it to Dudley in 1915 - 4% as 4;:- “ 4:24 . 7
for $600." (Record pages 54-6.) ”
* He tells us that he had priced the land before selling it
to Mrs. Dudley to one John Morgan Whitt fibr $1700.~
_ " "I asked him $1700 for the whole thing, what I
had title for". (Record p-ee)
‘2? ~23 5!- ?5 ~36-
. I priced it to Ballard Dudley, just the land, and
me to make my exceptions and exclude the minerals,
. that I Would take $600.00 * *, * %
'Uk(Dudley) said he Wnuld have to get awayffrom-
Jones fork“* * that he just wanted a place 7
V to live on' _ (Record p—56)
Kooeh Martin prepared the deed. ,
“The deed was written in the presence4of me and
Dudley it was read over by Martin after it was
written—-- ' , ‘
- Q. -Did you state to Martin whet property it was
you were selling to Dudley? ’
- ' A. ‘Yes Sir, that I was selling the surface, the
ground. and that ; had leased the gil agd gag
and wanted to make my exceptions on that." (Record p-57.
I We wish here to call the Court's attention to the fact
' 7 that Dudley does not anywhere deny hearing Hoover make that statement-
"that he had leased the oil and gas" in the land to another.
' Mr. martin- Craftsman of the deed,- was then a deputy .
I County Clerk- a friend ofDudleye, in no way related to Hoover,
, ' supports Hoover. He testifies that he went with Dudley to ’
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' v HoaVor'3.reeidence to write the deed,- that Dudley and fioover '
Were present when he prepared it, that he does not vemeéber ‘
. whether a? not he read the deed to them, but that it was hie cuetom
whenever he wrote a deed for portion is read it to them. ’
."I usually read deeds to see if they were all
right before theparties signed them: ’ (Record '5). 75.)
. - _ That he prepared the deed as he had been instructed by '
. the parties to prepabc 11, (a. 76) that he had no interest other -
than to write it as they told him, In answer to the question
, “What did you intend to exclude by ufiing the '
- phrase ”excluding all the mineral in said ‘
land?” 1
7 he states; , ,
"Welly I intended to exclude just what they told
‘ me to, and fee; LhQY mu§t_hax§ gigen no the; '
language 9: I would not gage used it. (R. p. 7?) '
Hoover testifies that one Ark Wirwmen was-present in
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' his, Hoover's, house the day he and nudley made their contract ‘
for the land - hoover and Wirenen testified to that effect in -
Iudiey'e presence. All Dudley73ays in rebuttal- When aekod if '
Wireman was present is V
-_ "N0, Sir.- ;g he was ; never saw him." ‘
n ‘ - . (Dudley Dep. p. 2) I .
~ The answer- Qualified as it is, is a olain evasion~
a form a: compromise between his conscience and plain falsehood ‘
often resorted to by those who haVe the will but have not the , 3
courage of the hardened or profcsoianal prevaricator. ’ 4
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_ bvnfesced deceiver, as the fiecord before the Court unquestinns
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‘- New Wireman testifies that he was living at “r. Heaven's ’
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_, hauge at the time hoover and Pudley mafia their trade far the land-
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. ~ Ballard and by Nelvin there at the time the trade ,
‘ W was made? ”“ ‘ ‘ ,
/ 7 5, Well; I cauldn’t tell you what 211 they talked " -
_‘_ ‘ ‘\ about before‘they got into trading, or nothing like
, , § _ - 'that. ‘ ’ i
’Q. » Tell\what they talked abeut relativa toxthis t
' ,\ tract 0? land?, - _ , ‘
‘ VA — A; . Well, they_talked round there awhile and finally a
\’ x ‘ Ballard told him lets talk trade talk or sonathing '
1. , amounting te that as near as‘I remember, and imlvin
’ ' i I. told him he Would sell him the land but he would ex-
» ' \ cept the_pil and gas and the timber and I think hr - ‘
, / *‘ told Ballard that the coal was sold. He is over
' i. A; there for himself, ha knows whether he told him ‘
~ that or not,— but as Well as I remember he told him
‘, the anal was sold orkthat was his understanding and \
. ‘30 Ballard paid him §50.oo as well as I remenber_1n ' “
~ ‘ tfiq twenty dollar bills and a ten dollar bill and '
_ r then they went on down to Mr. Hays to see if Sp
, ‘ would take $250 on him, on Baliard- I think that >
* Melvin was owing on the land you see. I dont know ‘
' ‘what they donendown there. That is about all I» ‘
a t " knew about it. ‘ < ' . . ,‘
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- Winemam‘tnstifies that he was callea by Dudley to
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, witne§s the payment of the $50. in cash t9 hoover, and that the \
‘ meney has.paid in his‘pheaence. - _" .
. in this connection we ask the Court to rvad the depo- _ ’ x
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' She tells that she can neither read nor write, but that she is,
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nevertheless,'a Woman of marked intelligence,and veracity her
deposition clearly ehoWB. No one, we think, can read her depo-
_ ' sition without being impressed at once with her intelligence and
' candor. She was the owner of the land, and s‘e makes it clear
that all she egreed to sell or did sell and convey to Mrs. Dudley -
was, as she calls it, the surface, and that she meant to reserve >
and did reserve all other rights in the lend. -
Daisy Dudley testifies that she was present when her
hunbapd and Hoover made the trade but she does not recall what
was Bald by either of them. We Quote from her deposition: . _ .
> Q. "Where were you at the time? V
7 r . A. l was there. ‘

' Q. 1 know but what part of the house, Mrs. Dudley~ ‘
were you in the same room with then or in the ,
room with Mrs, Hoover and the children?

L A. I dont recollect. , > - '

Q. What is your best recollection?
' _ A. *I was there but I haVe forgot what they said about 1*. ~
Q. Did you hear what they said about it? .
‘, IA, I reckon I heard it, but I done reooflrct."
“ ' (“eposition pp. 53-4). ‘
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So that against the testimony of Melvin Hoover, Louisa
’ fipjver, W. B. martin and Ark Wireman as to what was said by the parties
when the deed to Daley Dudley was drawn~ there stands only the
word of Ballard Dudley. We name W. R. Martin, the draftsman of
- the deed because he tells us that he knows the horde "the sell
I the mineral in said land" must have been dictated to him by the
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parties at the time he wrote the deed. . 4
But in addition to the testimony of the witnesses named,
there is an admitted fact which gives powerfdl corroboration to
defendant‘s contention.
. It must be remeobered that in the deed from Hays to Hoover
there Was no exception or reservation whatever. ‘lt ie on its 1
face a deed for the fee simple title in the land. I
' Hoover, however, knew when he got the deed from Hays
m that the latter bed theretofore sold the coal underlying the land
' m a coal company. Hoover told Dudley, as the latter admits,
’ that the coal had been sold. ‘ ~~
' ' Now, if it wad the intention of the parties to except
_ V in the deed to Ba 18:; Dudley {whitheiooalmthddwheenieold,
would it not have been so expressed in the deed? Why instead use I
the clause "excepting the all the mineral on said land" if the 7
coal alone was to be excepted. flartin testifies that the words
.used must haVe been given to him by the