WATSON v. KENLICK COAL CO., INC.

No. 74-294.

422 U.S. 1012 (1975)

WATSON ET AL. v. KENLICK COAL CO., INC., ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

June 16, 1975.


Certiorari denied.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, dissenting.

Petitioners are landowners in Magoffin County, Ky. Seventy years ago, their predecessors in ownership deeded away all rights to the minerals in and under their land, retaining only the surface rights; respondents are the present holders of the mineral rights, and have strip-mined much of the coal which underlies the land. Petitioners brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking injunctive relief...

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