KRS 381.430: Possession of minerals and other interests in land -- Effect on possession of

surface.

Wherever the mineral or other interests in or rights appurtenant to land in this state have

passed, or shall hereafter pass, in any way, from a claimant in possession of the surface of

the land, the continuity of the possession of such mineral, interests and rights shall not be

deemed thereby to have been broken; but the possession of the surface by the original

claimant thereof, from whom such mineral, interests or rights passed, or by those

claiming through or under him, or by virtue of a judgment against him in an action to

which the holder of the mineral, interests or rights is not a party, shall be deemed to be for

the benefit of the person, his heirs and assigns , to whom the mineral, interests or rights

have passed.