KRS 416.640: Conflicting claimants to condemned land.

Where there are conflicting claimants to the land sought to be condemned and all such

parties are before the court, each claimant, for the purposes of the condemnation

proceeding only, shall be deemed to be an owner, and the procedure for the

condemnation of the land shall be as provided in KRS 416.540 to 416.670 except that,

before the condemnor shall be entitled to take possession of the land, it shall be required

to pay the compensation awarded therein to the Circuit Court clerk to be held for the

benefit of, and paid over to such persons as may thereafter be determined to be entitled to

receive it. In such cases, the claimants may have their rights determined in a separate

action, but the filing of such action or its pendency shall in no wise stay or de lay said

condemnation proceedings.